About Shell
Shell Freeman is a Licensed Master Social Worker with nine years of experience as a mental health clinician in Michigan. She works with people facing anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, and identity questions. Her approach is warm and interactive, and she aims to make sessions clear and practical for busy parents and adults.
Shell focuses on everyday problems as well as complex situations like trauma, grief, addiction, and mood instability.
Background and approach
She also supports people navigating LGBT concerns, gender dysphoria, and HIV/AIDS related stress. Her work often addresses attachment, communication, and parenting strain in direct, manageable steps. In sessions she blends cognitive-behavioral ideas with acceptance-based practices and emotion-focused work.
That means she helps people notice unhelpful thinking, clarify values, and build habits that match what matters most. She also uses strategies from dialectical behavior work to teach emotion regulation and coping skills. Shell describes her style as genuine and collaborative.
She listens carefully, offers straightforward tools, and helps people set realistic goals. Parents and professionals who need flexible, focused support often find this mix useful. Her background includes nine years of clinical practice in Michigan as an LMSW.
She works via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, and she accepts international clients when schedules align.
How specific approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. It is useful when anxiety or avoidance keeps someone from doing important activities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with real-life experiments and behavior changes, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood through clear, actionable tasks.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose strategies that match a person's goals, comfort level, and daily routine. Sessions may combine ACT and CBT skills, emotion-focused techniques, or dialectical behavior strategies depending on what seems most helpful for managing emotions and relationships.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions make it easy to work through skills and role-plays together. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow short updates, skill practice, and ongoing support between longer appointments. These options help people fit therapy into work, school, caregiving, and travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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