Services
Attending Therapy Alone or With Your Partner
Individual Therapy
I approach therapy with the belief that everyone who enters counseling is in transition. They are feeling distressed and want to experience a greater sense of satisfaction in their relationships, jobs, and sense of self. This helps me to understand how your past has influenced you and how that may be impacting current decisions and relationships. I am also influenced by my training in short term solution focused work so that the time you spend with me can empower you to create a more fulfilling life. My ideal client is one who is motivated, willing to risk changing their thinking, in order to create greater self-satisfaction.
Couples Therapy
My work with couples includes gaining a solid understanding of their family history, coping skills, joys, and areas of frustration in their relationship with their partner. Often couples have not had healthy models for communicating, or have been sidetracked by life situations, jobs, or child-rearing. If they have not found comfort and support in their relationship mistrust and misunderstanding can take over. My approach is active but collaborative. I focus on identifying miscommunication or incomplete communication and helping them to find more opportunities for connection, trust, and respect.
Areas of Expertise
Modalities
Anxiety & Depression
Marital & Couples Counseling
Grief Issues
Divorce Issues
Job Loss or Change
Transitions
Women's Issues
PTSD
Stress Reduction
Self Esteem and Assertiveness
LGBT issues
Adult Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral
Insight Oriented
Crisis Intervention
Psychodynamic
Critical Incidence Stress Debriefing
Wellness training
Visualization
Solution Focused
Brief Therapy
Areas of Expertise
Anxiety & Depression
Marital & Couples Counseling
Grief Issues
Divorce Issues
Job Loss or Change
Transitions
Women's Issues
PTSD
Stress Reduction
Self Esteem and Assertiveness
LGBT issues
Modalities
Adult Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral
Insight Oriented
Crisis Intervention
Psychodynamic
Critical Incidence Stress Debriefing
Wellness training
Visualization
Solution Focused
Brief Therapy
About
My most successful clients come for assistance during times of transition wanting to grow and become their best.
In a caring, respectful environment clients can relax, step back and assess what they need from therapy. We then work together to create solutions to the challenges facing them. That includes helping the client find the inner resources and courage to manage and overcome their internal struggles.
As individuals and couples understand, and acknowledge critical issues, they can find and implement lasting solutions.
I also provide life, executive, and career coaching services. Through the coaching, process clients discover their true goals and passions. After those discoveries, they can create a roadmap for achieving their goals.
My practice addresses the following kinds of specialty issues and uses the following modalities. This is a few of the areas but certainly not the breadth of issues people have brought to Shelley.
Getting Started is Easy
Phone assesment
This conversation helps establish a relationship and determines if I can be beneficial.
Book Appointment
1st Session
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you accept insurance?
I am a member of all of the following insurance panels: AETNA, Anthem, United Behavioral Health, Cigna, Medicare, and several Employee Assistance Panels (EAP).
Type of payment?
I accept cash, checks and credit cards. My policy is that payment is due at the end of the session. For convenience for my clients and biller, I encourage clients to use credit cards and to designate if they want to be charged once or twice a month. I have created a form for each option.
Are there areas in which you do not specialize?
My practice is specialized towards adults who are experience life transitions, depression, anxiety, lowered self-esteem, stress, and personal or work-related issues.
I do not provide services to the courts, evaluations for disability, specialized addiction, or couples experiencing domestic violence in their relationship.
Contact Me
Ask a question or book an appointment below. For emergencies call 911 or visit your nearest hospital.