About Shirley
Shirley Currier is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who draws on 19 years of clinical experience. She came to counseling through her own recovery, and she focuses on helping people who struggle with addiction, mood concerns, anxiety, and relationship and family stress.
Shirley speaks plainly and works to make the first steps less overwhelming for people searching for help. She frames clients as the experts on their lives and offers practical guidance based on what has helped others in similar situations.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with attention to patterns that keep problems going and small changes that can make daily life easier. She blends evidence-based methods with a respectful, nonjudgmental stance. Shirley’s background includes work in physician offices, nonprofit programs, day treatment, and court diversion services in Harris County, Texas.
That range of settings shaped her ability to work with people facing complex life and legal stressors, addictions, trauma, grief, and burnout. She returned to school in 2000 for a master’s in clinical psychology after early work as a licensed chemical dependency counselor.
Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and client-centered ways of meeting people where they are. She often addresses attachment concerns, communication problems, shame and guilt, and process addictions alongside mood and anxiety issues. People who want straightforward support and steady collaboration tend to find her style helpful.
Shirley invites clients to set clear goals and to take small, manageable steps toward improved coping and healthier relationships.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and long-term behavior change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing the thoughts and behaviors that maintain problems; it is practical for depression, panic, and many anxiety patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotional responses and improving how people connect and communicate in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shirley will listen to your goals and try specific methods to see what fits. She collaborates with each person to tailor techniques and adjust the plan as needed, so sessions emphasize what helps you make steady progress.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter check-ins during the day, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English