About Shirley
Shirley Currier, LPC, LMFT helps people facing anxiety and a wide range of related concerns. She draws on nearly two decades of clinical experience in Texas and meets people where they are. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, with an emphasis on practical steps and steady support.
Shirley’s interest in counseling began through her own recovery from addiction. That early experience led her to train first as a chemical dependency counselor and later to earn a master’s degree in clinical psychology.
Background and approach
She has worked in physician offices, nonprofit settings, day treatment programs, and court diversion programs in Harris County. Her work addresses addictions, trauma, stress, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, and a range of mood and anxiety concerns. She also supports people dealing with obsessions and compulsions, panic attacks, phobias, and process addictions such as gambling or problematic pornography use.
In sessions Shirley treats clients as the experts on their lives. She combines practical tools from cognitive-behavioral and acceptance-based approaches with emotion-focused and skills-based strategies. She also uses dialectical techniques and client-centered listening to help people build new responses to old patterns.
Clients can expect clear, respectful conversation, goal-oriented work, and guidance rooted in real-world experience. Shirley aims to help people find manageable steps toward change and recovery, and she invites anyone ready to start to reach out and begin the process.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed actions. It helps people who feel stuck by teaching simple tools to notice thoughts and move toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, panic, and obsessive thoughts. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, centers on understanding emotions and improving emotional connection to reduce distress in relationships and personal struggles.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and day-to-day challenges to decide which methods to emphasize. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helping and what is not.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and deeper interaction. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let clients share updates between sessions or use brief written check-ins during busy days. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people fit therapy into work, family, and travel constraints.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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