About Shelli
Shelli Sheppard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 26 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, ADHD, parenting concerns, self-esteem struggles, career changes, and coaching needs. She offers straightforward support for practical problems and emotional strain.
Her approach is warm and respectful. Sessions focus on listening first and then building simple, usable steps. Shelli adapts conversations and plans to each person's situation rather than using one-size-fits-all solutions.
How Shelli works
She draws on client-centered methods to keep the person's goals central. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas are used to spot unhelpful thinking and make small changes that improve daily functioning. Solution-focused techniques help identify strengths and next steps for immediate problems.
Shelli also uses Internal Family Systems concepts to help people understand the different parts of themselves and how those parts influence feelings and choices. This can be useful for trauma, grief, and deep-seated patterns like avoidance or control issues.
Her work often attends to specific concerns such as abandonment, body image, codependency, communication problems, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, and first responder issues. She offers a calm, goal-oriented style for those who want clear tools and steady support while navigating life changes. Sessions are framed around what the client needs to do day to day.
Shelli encourages practical plans and small actions that add up to lasting change.
Shelli lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Shelli works with
The areas below are the ones Shelli selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How these approaches work in online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. The therapist reflects concerns back and helps clients set their own goals, which is helpful for stress, grief, and self-esteem issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Online sessions use practical exercises and short, doable assignments to change thinking and improve daily functioning with anxiety, anger, or concentration problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will discuss your concerns, try methods that fit your goals, and adjust based on how you respond. That way the plan evolves from your needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers a range of formats to fit different schedules and situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing coaching-style contact. These options make it easier to keep regular sessions, try different ways of working, and fit therapy into a busy life.
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A practical next step
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