About Shelley
Shelley Adkins is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She works with people coping with relationship struggles, parenting strain, career shifts, and life changes. Shelley offers a calm, direct approach for those feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
She uses practical, person-focused methods to help people manage symptoms and build steady coping skills. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with attention to communication and problem solving.
Background and approach
Clients often work on clearer thinking, stress reduction, and small habit changes that add up. Shelley has long experience supporting caregivers, people dealing with chronic illness or cancer, and those facing compassion fatigue or first responder stress. She also helps with family of origin issues, codependency, and commitment concerns.
Her background in Kentucky gives her familiarity with regional resources and community stresses. In therapy she draws on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, narrative methods, and trauma-focused strategies. That mix lets Shelley tailor the pace and tools to each person’s needs.
She focuses on practical steps and realistic goals rather than long labels. People who choose Shelley can expect straightforward guidance, compassionate listening, and concrete action plans. Her aim is to help clients regain a sense of control, improve relationships, and move forward after loss or difficult transitions.
How Shelley’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy means sessions are shaped around the person in front of the therapist. Shelley listens closely and follows what matters most to each client, helping set goals that fit daily life and values.Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing small behavior changes. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing stress by teaching practical skills to shift patterns that keep problems going.
Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment and simple practices to reduce reactivity. It helps people notice stress early and choose calmer responses instead of automatic reactions.
Picking the right approach is part of the work. Shelley will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and what feels comfortable. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls provide face-to-face interaction for skill practice and emotional work. Phone sessions can be quicker and need less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients check in between sessions or use shorter, on-the-go support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or health demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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