About Shelley
Shelley Duncan is a Licensed Clinical Professional (LCP) in Kansas with more than 15 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, and common life transitions. Shelley focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more in control.
Shelley listens with respect and sensitivity and adapts her approach to each person. She uses evidence-informed methods to help people manage symptoms and change unhelpful patterns.
How Shelley works
Sessions are conversational but focused on real skills you can try between meetings. Her background includes supporting people through relationship strain, family conflict, caregiving stress, grief, and trauma and abuse. She also helps with issues like sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, body image, and career concerns.
Additional areas of attention include abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, blended family matters, and family of origin issues. Shelley works collaboratively to set goals and track progress. She offers coaching-style guidance alongside clinical care when appropriate.
Her goal is to help people build tools that fit their everyday lives. People who value clear strategies, warm listening, and steady support tend to fit well with her style. She encourages small steps and practical changes that add up over time.
Taking the first step is often the hardest part, and Shelley aims to make that step easier to take.
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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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kansas |
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Online support options
Using CBT and online formats to build practical skills
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more balanced ways of thinking to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. This approach often includes simple exercises and homework to practice new skills outside of sessions.Shelley pairs CBT with a collaborative process. She will work together with each person to choose the right tools based on their goals, daily responsibilities, and what feels most useful. That means trying different techniques and adjusting the plan if something does not fit.
Online therapy makes these approaches more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session or focused work is needed. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These formats help people fit therapy into busy days and keep continuity of care across different circumstances.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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