About Shelley
Shelley Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 13 years of experience in clinical work. She focuses on anxiety and stress, and on helping people who are coping with trauma, grief, depression, and addictions. Shelley speaks plainly and keeps sessions practical so parents and busy adults can follow along.
She believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths into therapy. That viewpoint shapes how she listens and responds.
Background and approach
Shelley aims to help people use those strengths to manage emotions and regain a sense of control. Her approach mixes clear, goal-focused methods and deeper exploration. She uses strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and she also helps people look at how past experiences affect their feelings now.
Sessions often include skills practice, reflection, and problem solving. Shelley works with concerns such as relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, self-esteem struggles, anger, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses family of origin issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, first responder stress, and substance use challenges.
People who prefer straightforward guidance and a collaborative tone tend to fit well with her style. She offers sessions by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to availability.
How talk therapy and skill work translate online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting each person as the expert on their own life. It helps with anxiety, grief, relationship concerns, and building self-trust by centering the client’s goals and experience.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, stress, depression, and coping with cravings or addictive behaviors by offering concrete skills to practice between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and sharpening communication. It can be helpful when strong emotions or relationship conflicts make daily life harder.
Shelley treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then recommend strategies that fit those needs. Together they may try different techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions let people work on anxiety and stress from wherever they are. Video calls are good for face-to-face interaction and skills coaching. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or clients prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins, quick coaching, or support between longer sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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