About Shelly
Shelly Proper is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and related concerns. She brings 17 years of clinical experience and a pragmatic, person-focused approach to sessions. Shelly aims to help clients find clearer choices and build skills that make daily life easier.
Shelly has worked in independent practice, schools, higher education, and local agencies. She has experience with addictions, grief and end-of-life issues, medical and emotional trauma, and life transitions.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing caregiver stress, postpartum depression, first responder issues, and challenges tied to career and life purpose. Her style is warm, interactive, and straightforward. Sessions emphasize the client’s knowledge of their own life and focus on practical steps people can try between meetings.
Shelly draws on cognitive behavioral techniques when helping reorganize unhelpful thinking patterns and on acceptance-based strategies to build values-driven action. She also uses emotionally focused and dialectical methods to strengthen emotion regulation and relationship skills. Solution-focused ideas shape short-term goal work and coaching around life changes.
Shelly explains techniques clearly and helps people pick tools that fit their daily routine. Shelly holds a post-master's teaching certificate in psychology and has worked with educational planning in addition to clinical roles. She offers sessions in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexible support.
How online approaches and methods fit your needs
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values to reduce anxiety’s hold. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to ease symptoms and improve daily functioning. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people understand and name strong emotions so they can respond differently and build better emotional coping.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each client about their goals and preferences, then together they will try methods that seem most helpful. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust techniques if something doesn’t fit.
Online formats make it simpler to get consistent support. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for people who prefer writing, need quick coping reminders between sessions, or want flexible check-ins during a busy day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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