About Shellby
Shellby Custer is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 23 years of experience to her therapeutic work. She helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and the fallout from trauma. Her style is straightforward and caring, aimed at practical change and emotional safety.
Shellby focuses on everyday problems that can feel overwhelming. She helps people facing life changes, grief, burnout, addiction concerns, and struggles with self-esteem. She also addresses mood and personality issues and supports people dealing with chronic pain, illness, or disability.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses therapies that look at how relationships and past experiences shape current feelings. That includes attention to attachment patterns, life stories, and present thoughts and behaviors. Clients work on clearer thinking, healthier habits, and steadier emotional responses.
Shellby draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to shift unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills. She also uses narrative and mindfulness approaches to help people reframe painful memories and learn grounding practices. Motivational interviewing supports goal-setting and making changes that stick.
Her work is collaborative and paced to each person. People can expect practical strategies, reflective conversation, and gentle challenges when needed. Shellby practices in Pennsylvania as an LCSW and offers a range of session formats for different needs.
Using attachment, CBT, and mindfulness online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current emotions and behaviors. It helps people understand patterns like fear of abandonment or difficulty trusting others so they can try new ways of relating.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to notice unhelpful thinking, test assumptions, and build more effective coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and mood concerns.
Mindfulness Therapy brings simple attention practices into daily life. These exercises help reduce reactivity, manage stress, and improve sleep and focus by training awareness of the present moment.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Shellby will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messages suit brief check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue care across different circumstances.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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