About Shelly
Shelly Goodman is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 13 years of experience in mental health and substance use care. She earned a master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from Michigan State University. Shelly approaches sessions with a calm, practical style that focuses on what a person needs right now.
She helps people manage anxiety and stress with hands-on strategies they can use between sessions. She also supports people dealing with depression, grief, ADHD, substance concerns, and trauma or abuse.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear goals and small steps toward change. Shelly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness practices to teach emotional skills and steady attention.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone is weighing change or facing addiction-related decisions. Her work is collaborative and client-centered. Shelly listens for each person’s priorities and adapts tools to match their life.
She focuses on practical solutions for sleep, parenting stress, relationship struggles, career transitions, and coping with loss. Therapy with Shelly can include short-term problem-solving or longer-term work to build skills and resilience. People who want direct, compassionate guidance and clear techniques for managing anxiety and life changes may find her approach useful.
Evidence-based approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, while clarifying what matters most so actions match values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person sets the pace and priorities.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Shelly works collaboratively to choose or combine methods based on someone’s goals, symptoms, and daily life. Together they try strategies, review what helps, and adjust the plan as needed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face from home or work when schedules allow. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, homework support, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into real life while using the therapist’s clinical approaches to address anxiety, stress, and related concerns.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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