About Shelly
Shelly Sanders is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, anger, and addiction. She also supports people facing relationship strains, parenting challenges, grief, intimacy concerns, eating or sleeping problems, attention difficulties, and career stress. Shelly works from Idaho and brings nine years of clinical experience to sessions.
Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions focus on practical steps and real-life skills rather than long lectures.
How Shelly works
Shelly centers each meeting on the person in front of her and adapts methods to fit individual needs and goals. Shelly uses several approaches to guide therapy. She draws on attachment-based ideas to explore how early bonds affect current feelings and behaviors.
Cognitive behavioral techniques help people spot unhelpful thoughts and build different habits. She also offers dialectical behavior strategies for emotional regulation and grounding methods for processing trauma. In session, Shelby (Shelly) works collaboratively to set clear, achievable goals.
Treatment plans are specific and time-oriented so progress can be tracked. When trauma memories are affecting daily life, she may use bilateral stimulation and EMDR techniques as appropriate. Shelly has experience across a range of life stages and situations, including caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, autism spectrum concerns, blended family dynamics, grief, and coping with major life changes.
Her aim is to provide steady support and practical tools to help people move forward.
Shelly lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Shelly works with
The areas below are the ones Shelly selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Idaho |
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Online support options
Approaches and how they fit into online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape how people relate today. Online sessions can use this approach to uncover patterns that show up in relationships and parenting. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It often includes homework and short exercises that can be reviewed during video or messaging sessions. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help process distressing memories when trauma is a focus; parts of EMDR can be adapted to remote sessions when clinically appropriate.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That choice can change over time as progress is made and new challenges arise.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and guided exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to send updates, handle brief concerns between sessions, or fit therapy into a busy schedule. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on steady progress and usable tools.
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