About Shelley
Shelley Adkins is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience based in Kentucky. She helps adults who are overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, caregiving strain, or major life changes. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people find steady ways to cope and move forward.
Shelley draws on practical approaches to help clients manage stress, improve communication, and rebuild confidence. Sessions focus on real-life skills people can use between meetings.
How Shelley works
She supports people facing chronic illness, cancer, aging concerns, and the emotional toll of caregiving. Her experience includes long-term work with adults affected by trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and first responder issues. She also helps people untangle family of origin problems, codependency, commitment worries, and workplace stress.
Shelley pays attention to how personal history shapes present struggles and choices. Therapy blends client-centered listening with goal-focused tools. Cognitive behavioral techniques help change unhelpful thought patterns.
Narrative methods invite people to reframe life stories. Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce distress in the moment. Sessions are available online by video, phone, chat, or messaging.
Shelley works with adults who need help coping with life transitions, relationship difficulties, or persistent low mood. She aims to make therapy practical, respectful, and rooted in each person’s goals.
Shelley lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Shelley works with
The areas below are the ones Shelley selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kentucky |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online care
Shelley uses client-centered work to focus on what matters most to each person. This approach emphasizes listening, reflecting, and building goals that fit a person’s life. It can help when someone needs validation and practical next steps to cope.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is used to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching concrete skills people can practice between sessions.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. Shelley collaborates with clients to decide which approaches match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they adjust methods over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and texting or live chat can suit brief check-ins or days when typing feels easier. These formats provide flexibility for scheduling, shorter emotional check-ins, and continued work during life transitions.
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