About Shirley
Shirley Souder brings an approach that centers on realistic, practical steps people can take to feel better. She uses techniques that focus on how current choices affect daily life. Shirley pairs those skills with faith-informed guidance when clients want that perspective.
She has 43 years of experience and holds LMFT and LCSW credentials. She helps people dealing with stress and anxiety by breaking problems into manageable actions. She offers ways to handle relationship strain, intimacy concerns, grief, and addictive behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions often include learning communication skills, practicing emotional forgiveness, and building healthier patterns at home and work. Her background includes degrees in psychology and Christian counseling, and many years working with life transitions and caregiving stress. That experience informs practical coaching on job interviews, nutrition habits, and coping with loss.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-minded. Shirley uses attachment-focused ideas to look at how early bonds affect current relationships. She also draws on cognitive strategies to change unhelpful thinking and client-centered methods that follow each person’s pace.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone wants change but feels stuck. She provides services from Indiana and speaks English. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
International clients are accepted and the subscription for sessions can be canceled at any time.
How Shirley’s Approaches Work Online
Shirley draws on attachment-based work to look at how close relationships shape feelings and behavior. This approach helps people who want to understand trust, closeness, and emotional reactions in relationships. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shirley collaborates with each person to decide what methods fit their goals and comfort level. She adjusts techniques over time based on progress, feedback, and what feels useful in day-to-day life.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversations and practicing skills together. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, and ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options give flexibility for people balancing work, family, and care responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 43 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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