- Strength-focused care
- Practical strategies
- Mindful living
About Shelly
She enjoys guiding people through both routine problems and sudden changes. Shelly focuses on building healthy coping skills, regulating emotions, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. She works with clients to identify strengths, limits, and small steps that lead to steady progress.
Shelly uses clear, collaborative methods in sessions. She asks questions, listens carefully, and suggests concrete strategies to try between meetings. Those strategies often include thinking tools, mindfulness practices, and ways to change unhelpful patterns of behavior.
Her background includes ten years of clinical experience and credentials as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, and a Certified Social Worker, CSW. She draws on that experience when helping people facing addictions, parenting strain, attachment concerns, or major life transitions.
Shelly emphasizes practical problem solving alongside emotional support. She welcomes people who are ready to try new ways of thinking and behaving and who want steady, skill-based work toward clearer goals and better daily functioning.
Using therapy approaches that fit your life online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and working at the client’s pace. It helps people clarify what matters to them and build confidence to make changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets thoughts and behaviors. It offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and change patterns that get in the way of daily functioning.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and interpersonal skills. It can be useful when strong emotions or relationship conflicts make life feel chaotic.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and needs. That way sessions focus on strategies that feel useful and doable.
Please confirm which session formats are offered before booking, since specific formats were not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Many people find it simpler to practice skills between sessions when therapy fits smoothly into their routine.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Shelly help with?
Shelly works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, relationship issues, grief, depression, addictions, parenting strain, and bipolar-related struggles. She also addresses attachment, codependency, communication problems, and family of origin issues.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is collaborative and strength-focused. She uses practical tools for emotion regulation, solution-building, and mindful living while helping clients try new ways of thinking and behaving.
How much experience does she have?
Shelly has ten years of clinical experience working with people who face both everyday stressors and major life changes. She combines that experience with a focus on skills and steady progress.
Which credentials and where is she licensed?
She holds LCSW, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and CSW, Certified Social Worker, credentials and practices in Georgia.
Are sessions offered in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats. Check the scheduling details to see which formats the therapist is offering now.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Exact pricing is provided during the scheduling process.
How do I get started with therapy?
Select the continue button on this profile, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.