About Shelly
Shelly Grabiak is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who centers her work on practical, evidence-based support. She focuses on anxiety, stress, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and coping with major life changes. Shelly speaks English and Spanish and provides services from Florida to international clients.
Shelly uses straightforward, compassionate conversation to help people notice what matters to them now. Sessions aim to clarify goals, reduce overwhelming feelings, and build steps that fit daily life.
Background and approach
She draws on techniques that have research support to help with panic, persistent worry, and reactions after distressing events. Her background includes five years as a licensed clinician working across mental health and medical settings. Prior work involved crisis lines, hospitals, addiction programs, and hospice care, which shaped how she approaches strong emotions and end-of-life concerns.
That experience informs her attention to grief, caregiver stress, and chronic illness challenges. Shelly describes her style as encouraging and value-driven. She helps people identify strengths, set manageable goals, and practice new ways of coping.
Conversations move at a practical pace so clients can take small, useful steps between sessions. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Fees vary by location and therapist availability and are billed through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules a session according to availability.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on practical change and managing strong emotions. Cognitive methods help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and test new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and worry. Behavioral strategies encourage small, doable steps that increase confidence and lower avoidance in daily life.Shelly treats the selection of methods as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which approaches to try and adjust the plan as needed based on what is working.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when interaction and visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats help fit therapy into workdays, caregiving routines, or travel without losing the focus on practical strategies and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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