About Shelley
Shelley Duncan is a licensed clinician in Kansas with over 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety while addressing life changes that feel overwhelming. Shelley aims to create a respectful, sensitive, and compassionate space for each person she meets.
She works with people facing relationship strain, family conflict, and career challenges. Shelley also supports those coping with grief, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, anger, and sleep problems.
Background and approach
She offers coaching for life transitions and helps clients affected by compassion fatigue. Shelley uses a collaborative style. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs and goals.
Conversations lead to practical steps and ways to try new coping skills between meetings. Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings connect. This helps people spot patterns that keep problems going and practice small changes that make daily life easier.
People who choose Shelley often want straightforward help with day-to-day struggles. She focuses on clear goals and realistic strategies. Shelley supports clients as they try new ways of coping and track progress over time.
How CBT and online sessions work together
Shelley uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes to reduce worry and stress. CBT is often useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and managing reactions to life changes.Therapy is a team effort. Shelley will work with clients to choose the approach that fits their needs and goals. She discusses options, checks how techniques are working, and adjusts plans as progress happens so the work feels practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation windows. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can work well for quick updates, brief coaching, or when writing helps organize thoughts. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to stay consistent with follow-up work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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