About Shelley
Shelley Shoaib Le Breton is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety and relationship worries. She works in a straightforward, compassionate way and focuses on what you want to change. Shelley uses everyday language and practical steps in sessions so people feel heard and understood.
Shelley has four years' experience as a practising therapist and an additional 18 years of supporting neurodiverse people as an educator. She holds BACP accreditation, which is listed as BACP.
Background and approach
Shelley draws on that combined background when she talks through problems with clients. Her approach is rooted in understanding attachment and life patterns. She uses client-centred conversation to hear what matters most to each person.
Cognitive behavioural ideas are used when people want clear strategies for managing thoughts and behaviours. Typical concerns Shelley supports include anxiety, depression, grief and self-esteem. She also works with issues such as trauma and abuse, parenting strain, eating and intimacy-related concerns.
Additional focuses include attachment difficulties, autism and neurodiversity related needs, and coping with major life changes. Sessions aim to be practical and steady. Shelley helps people build coping skills, talk through painful memories, and try small changes that feel manageable.
She encourages clients to set the pace and to shape goals that fit their lives.
How Shelley’s approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships affect feelings and behaviour. Online conversations can help identify those patterns and create safer ways of relating to others and to yourself.Client-centred work puts the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens with empathy and follows your lead so you decide what matters and how fast to move.
Cognitive behavioural ideas bring practical tools to reduce unhelpful thinking and ease anxious or low mood. Homework and simple exercises are often used to test new ways of thinking between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Shelley will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit your goals and preferences. Together you can adjust the focus as you learn what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls let you see facial cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging can fit around a busy day. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and to fit therapy into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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