About Shelby
Shelby Friery uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and self-esteem struggles. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, with eight years of clinical experience. Shelby writes and teaches about counseling and brings that classroom perspective into sessions.
Her tone is patient and direct, with a sense of warmth and occasional humor to ease tense moments. In sessions she focuses on tangible goals and simple steps.
How Shelby works
Shelby draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build different habits. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters and act in line with those values. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change.
Shelby also uses Solution-Focused Therapy techniques to set small, achievable goals and track progress. She helps people work through communication problems, forgiveness, guilt, shame, and self-love. Practical tools and short experiments are common in her work so progress shows up between sessions.
Shelby’s background includes school counseling and counselor education. She teaches future counselors and conducts research, which keeps her practice informed by current ideas and real-world classroom experience. That combination helps her explain strategies clearly and coach people as they try new approaches.
Sessions are offered in English and take place online in formats that fit different rhythms of life. Shelby encourages a collaborative relationship where clients and therapist decide together which steps move someone toward the life they want.
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Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Idaho |
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Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It’s useful for anxiety, coping with change, and situations where people want more meaningful direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms and build new habits. It often helps with stress, anxiety, and improving day-to-day functioning.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Shelby will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying brief experiments, checking what works, and adjusting the plan together rather than following one fixed method.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer talk therapy, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps keep momentum between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines without traveling.
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