About Shelley
Shelley Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with 13 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and addiction. Shelley encourages clients to use their own strengths to move forward.
Shelley listens first and asks questions that help people tell their story. She helps clients name what they are feeling and figure out small, concrete steps to feel better.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward and useful rather than full of jargon. Her work covers trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and intimacy-related concerns. Shelley also supports people dealing with parenting stress, relationship friction, and family-of-origin issues.
She pays attention to how past losses or abandonment can affect present choices. Shelley uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws from client-centered work to keep the conversation focused on the client's priorities.
She also uses cognitive-behavioral strategies to break unhelpful thinking patterns. Clients can expect a calm, respectful space to talk through hard things. Shelley helps people set realistic goals and practice new skills between sessions.
She emphasizes steady progress and practical coping tools. Her additional areas include body image, aging and geriatric issues, first responder concerns, and recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. Shelley works in English and offers multiple online session formats to fit different schedules.
Working with therapy approaches online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the client's own goals and perspective. The therapist listens closely and follows what the client says matters most, which helps with self-esteem, relationship concerns, and emotional clarity.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses practical exercises and small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns.
Finding the right approach is often a process. Shelley works together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That collaborative path means approaches can shift as progress is made or new issues come up.
Online therapy offers practical options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and practicing skills, phone calls are good for lower bandwidth or a quick check-in, and messaging formats help people stay connected between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English