About Shirley
Shirley Taylor is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Kansas with 25 years of experience. She has worked across education, vocational services, and mental health settings. Shirley focuses on stress and anxiety while also addressing self-esteem, career concerns, depression, and life transitions.
She takes a practical, down-to-earth approach in sessions. Conversations are direct and goal-oriented. Shirley helps people name what feels hard, try small changes, and build skills that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Her work often looks at relationships, motivation, and communication. She also supports people coping with grief, trauma, addiction issues, and compassion fatigue. For those managing ADHD, caregiving duties, or aging concerns, she offers concrete strategies to reduce overwhelm and improve routines.
Shirley uses a mix of client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, and solution-focused tools. That means she listens, helps reframe unhelpful thoughts, and co-creates short-term plans for change. Sessions tend to balance empathy with practical steps you can try between meetings.
People who do well with her style want clear goals and actionable techniques. Shirley works with each person at their pace and adjusts methods to fit real-life schedules and responsibilities. Her background in vocational and educational settings helps when career or role changes are part of the problem.
How Shirley’s Methods Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy is about being heard and respected. The therapist follows the client's lead, asks questions, and reflects what she hears so the person can find their own solutions. This approach helps when someone feels stuck, isolated, or unsure about next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Sessions teach simple ways to notice unhelpful thinking and try different actions. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing stress in daily life.
Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small, practical changes that can make a difference quickly. It highlights past successes and builds short plans that are easy to try between sessions. This works well when someone needs focused, time-limited help to move forward.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Shirley will talk with each person about goals, routines, and what feels doable. She frames therapy as a team effort and adjusts methods based on needs, preferences, and progress.
Online sessions let people fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls offer face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on low-technology days. Live chat and text messaging make quick check-ins and short coaching-style exchanges possible. These options increase flexibility and help people keep consistent momentum toward their goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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