About Shelley
Shelley Shoaib Le Breton offers calm, steady support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or low self-esteem. She greets each person with simple, practical care and a belief that they know their life best. Shelley aims to make the first step easier for anyone who feels stuck or uncertain about what to do next.
She uses a blend of approaches to suit different needs. Conversations focus on what matters to the client right now, with practical steps to reduce distress and clearer ways to think about problems.
How Shelley works
Sessions tend to be straightforward and person-focused rather than full of jargon. Shelley has four years of practice as a therapist and a longer background supporting neurodiverse people in education. That combined experience shapes how she listens and how she plans work with each person.
She holds BACP accreditation, which is listed as her professional credential. Therapy may look like talking through painful events, revisiting how attachment shapes current relationships, or learning small planning and thinking strategies from cognitive behavioural ideas. Shelley adapts the pace to what the client finds manageable and useful.
People can discuss practical challenges such as parenting strain, career stress, relationship worries, or coping after loss. Shelley also offers help around trauma, boundaries, codependency, and difficulties that include attention differences. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Shelley encourages realistic goals and repeated small steps, checking in about what helps most as work continues.
Shelley lists 4 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Attachment-Based Therapy centres on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions using this approach often look at how a person connects with others and how those patterns affect stress, intimacy and trust. Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the centre and uses empathetic listening to help them feel heard and understood; this can ease anxiety and build self-esteem.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical ways to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Online CBT commonly includes simple exercises and planning tasks to reduce anxiety or low mood and to build coping skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and life circumstances and then agree on a way forward. That collaborative planning can mix elements from different approaches so the work fits the person’s needs.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as fitting sessions around work, childcare or travel and avoiding commuting time. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text-based messaging or live chat suit shorter check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. Registered or accredited professionals use these formats to make therapy more accessible and flexible for different lifestyles.
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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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