About Shelley
Shelley Hill is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, and relationship struggles. She offers a calm, direct approach and aims to create a space where someone can talk through painful feelings and also get clear tools to move forward.
Shelley listens for what is coming from beneath conscious thought as well as what someone can name out loud.
Background and approach
She blends conversational work with hands-on methods so insight and change happen together. That might look like guided breathing, focused conversation, or practical steps you can try between sessions. Her work covers trauma and abuse, intimacy and communication issues, self-esteem concerns, and challenges such as eating or sleeping problems.
Shelley also addresses caregiver stress, chronic illness, compassion fatigue, and issues related to aging and attachment. She supports people navigating major life changes and complicated grief. Shelley uses a mix of approaches to match a person’s needs.
She draws on solution-focused techniques, somatic methods that involve the body, mindfulness practices, hypnotherapy, and relationship work influenced by the Gottman Method. She balances warmth and direct feedback to keep sessions grounded and useful. Clients can expect straightforward guidance, presence, and occasional light humor to ease difficult conversations.
Shelley values practical steps and longer-term shifts, and she works with each person to find what helps most in their daily life.
Approaches you can use online and in session
Gottman Method-informed work focuses on improving communication and connection in relationships through clear skills and structured conversation. It can help with recurring conflict, intimacy concerns, and rebuilding trust.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce anxiety and improve emotional regulation. It can be useful for stress, panic, rumination, and managing strong emotions in daily life.
Somatic Therapy connects body sensations with emotions and memories, using gentle body-focused techniques to release tension and process trauma. This approach can help when worry or distress shows up as physical symptoms.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that fit and adjust as needed to make progress in a way that feels manageable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and keep therapy close to a face-to-face feel. Phone sessions may be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to share brief updates, get coping ideas between sessions, or fit support into a busy schedule. These options help people continue work with licensed professionals from varied locations and routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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