About Shelley
Shelley Wilman is a counsellor with three decades of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and has practised across many settings. Her work often focuses on anxiety and stress alongside trauma, grief and low self-esteem.
Shelley takes an integrative approach and says there is no single way that helps everyone. Sessions are shaped around the person in front of her, not a fixed technique.
Background and approach
She uses familiar methods such as cognitive behavioural approaches and EMDR when they fit a client’s needs. In sessions Shelley listens for what feels most urgent to the person she is talking with. She aims to help people make sense of painful feelings and patterns.
The work can include looking at thoughts and behaviours, processing traumatic memories, or finding more workable day-to-day coping steps. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Shelley encourages people to notice their own strengths and to take small practical steps between meetings.
She also supports people who are dealing with relationship difficulties, intimacy concerns, anger and family strain. People who come to Shelley often want a therapist who will be respectful and direct, and who will help them turn insight into action. Starting therapy with her begins with a short matching process and then booking sessions that suit individual schedules.
How Shelley’s approaches work in online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens closely, helps reflect back what matters, and supports the client to set the pace and focus. This approach is useful for people who want to feel heard and make sense of their feelings.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical exercises and small behavioural tasks to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often helpful for stress, worry and low mood.
EMDR is a trauma-focused method that works with distressing memories. It aims to reduce the intensity of painful recollections and the emotions tied to them, which can ease symptoms following abuse or other trauma.
Shelley treats choosing an approach as a shared process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest methods that could help. That choice can change as therapy progresses and new priorities emerge.
Online work offers a flexible way to meet. Video calls provide face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people reflect in writing. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family and treatment commitments while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Body image
- Cancer
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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