About Shelley
Shelley Stisser uses a client-centered approach to guide people through stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. She blends practical tools with listening to help clients name what matters and begin making small, steady changes. Shelley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with nearly two decades of experience in clinical settings across several states and now practices in Texas.
Her work focuses on clear, doable steps. She helps people manage panic and mood symptoms, navigate grief, and cope with burnout or compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
For concerns like body image, eating and food-related issues, or addictions, she mixes skill-building with reflective conversations. Sessions emphasize skills you can use between meetings. Shelley also addresses caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, and codependency.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and dialectical behavior strategies to regulate emotions. Mindfulness exercises and motivational interviewing help people find motivation and stay on track. In the first sessions she listens for strengths and barriers, then tailors the plan to each person’s goals.
The pace is collaborative and practical, focusing on what will feel useful day to day. Shelley explains concepts plainly and gives simple exercises to try between sessions. People who prefer a mix of talking and active skill practice often do well with this approach.
Her style is steady and solution-minded, aimed at helping clients handle current problems and build skills for the future.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s experience first. The therapist listens closely, reflects what is said, and helps clients set their own goals. This approach is useful for stress, grief, self-esteem, and life transitions because it centers what matters to the client.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It offers clear steps and homework exercises to reduce anxiety, depression, panic, and compulsive behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to manage strong feelings and stay steady during hard moments.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and preferences. Together they adjust methods over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people keep visual connection while attending from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when a lower-bandwidth option is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow quick check-ins, shorter updates, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy daily life.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Texas, New Mexico
- Languages
- English