Services
Shelley has been seeing clients in the psychotherapy setting since 2005. She works with women and men for individual treatment and with couples, teens, children and families.
Individual Therapy
It’s all about getting past our own negative projections toward ourselves and others to grow more positive feelings toward ourselves and the world.
Teen Counseling
Adolescence can be a confusing, difficult and self-critical stage of leaving childhood behind and transitioning into adulthood. Therapy can help teens process misunderstood strong feelings, thoughts and behaviors. Teens can learn to be less reactive and find inconceivable possibilities toward greater choices and find more opportunistic approaches to deepening the concept of being “kind to yourself.”
Play Therapy
Play therapy gives the child freedom to relieve stored up emotions, and find personal insight. By allowing the child space to express what they’re going through, play therapy can help the child to process the difficulties they are challenged by with a safe adult who cares.
Couples Therapy
Based on the Gottman’s therapeutic framework designed to enhance couples’ relationships in three areas of friendship, conflict mediation and creation of shared intentions.
Family Therapy
Identify family patterns that contribute to mental illness and ill behavior toward each other, with the purpose of leaving behind negative dynamics. Accent is on strengthening, and restructuring relationships so a family can shift their behavior to positively communicate and interact with regard for one another.
Depth Psychotherapy
In this lens, there is the emphasis of looking at the dynamic behind one’s actions. One comes in contact with the parts of self that have been mostly unconscious and hidden. The client is encouraged to expose and explore the struggles, questions and problems that keep one from creating a healthy life.
Trauma Therapy
Being present in the body is the primary therapeutic intervention to resolve trauma and attachment failure. Space is dedicated in the current moment so the dissociated self can be in the body. There is a juggle to bridge the unconscious world to the conscious one to re-determine one’s sense of self, behavior, and quality of relationships through relational constancy between the therapist and client. Body-oriented mindfulness addresses emotions and beliefs, and creates awareness to increase a positive sense of self, improve relationships, and resolve the past.
Grief Counseling for the Dying and Bereaved
Sorrow and grief over a beloved spouse, child, friend or pet, seem perhaps almost impossible to hold, a nightmare or horror. For those who find themselves in these tender spaces, grief counseling is a place to process the loss of a loved one. To feel achingly bereft is to have loved deeply.
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Wherever you are in your journey, Shelley is here to help. Please reach out with any questions, or to book your first appointment.