About Shelley
Shelley Stisser is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She works with adults who are facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and struggles with self-esteem. Sessions are straightforward and aimed at helping people manage life changes and addictive or eating-related concerns.
Shelley draws on nearly 19 years of experience in Texas and other states to help people identify strengths and barriers. She encourages clients to talk about what’s working and what gets in the way.
How Shelley works
Together they look for patterns that feed anxiety, mood shifts, or unhealthy habits. Her approach blends client-centered conversations with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. That means clients learn skills to notice unhelpful thoughts, regulate strong emotions, and build more effective coping strategies.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are also part of her toolbox for people who want to change behaviors and improve day-to-day coping. Sessions often focus on concrete steps - small experiments, new routines, or communication practices that can be tried between meetings.
Shelley pays attention to issues like body image, caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, codependency, and family of origin patterns when they come up. She helps people address guilt, shame, and compulsive or obsessive behaviors in a direct way. Therapy can be provided by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Shelley works in English and practices in Texas as an AZ LPC and a TX LPC. To begin, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions based on therapist availability.
Shelley lists 7 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.
Also listed
- Addictions
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Practical Therapy Approaches for Online Support
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and strengths and creates space for them to describe what matters. It’s helpful for people who want a supportive listener and a clear plan based on their priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, panic, and obsessive or compulsive patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers concrete emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills that help when moods shift quickly or reactions feel overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and suggest which methods to try. Decisions about techniques and homework are made collaboratively, and approaches can be adjusted as progress unfolds.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make scheduling more flexible. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins and ongoing support between meetings.
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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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