About Shirley
Shirley Butcher is an LPCC who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and depression. She brings six years of clinical experience and practical work with people coping with emotional pain and substance concerns. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel steadier and clearer about next steps.
Shirley focuses on building a steady therapeutic relationship first. She listens for how past relationships and attachment patterns influence current problems.
Background and approach
From there she uses tools drawn from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapies to teach skills for emotion regulation and clearer thinking. When trauma or painful memories are present, Shirley incorporates approaches that target traumatic memories and their effects. She balances symptom-focused strategies with attention to the person’s history and attachment needs.
That makes room for both practical coping skills and deeper processing when it feels right. Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. Shirley helps people set small, achievable steps and reviews progress as therapy continues.
She also addresses related concerns such as body image, codependency, communication problems, and guilt and shame. Shirley practices in Minnesota and offers services in English. She works with people experiencing a range of difficulties including abandonment and family of origin issues.
Her background in behavioral health includes work with alcohol and drug counseling alongside mental health care.
How Shirley’s approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions using this approach focus on noticing those patterns and trying new ways of connecting and responding in daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In online sessions CBT often involves short exercises, between-session practice, and clear tools for managing anxiety and mood. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, called EMDR, addresses traumatic memories and their emotional impact; when used online it typically follows a clear, paced protocol that combines memory processing with focused bilateral stimulation.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Shirley will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most comfortable. Together they choose methods and adjust them as progress is made, mixing skill work with deeper processing when needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for full face-to-face contact, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to choose the format that best supports skills practice and emotional work.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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