Shelley Smith, LPC

Shelley Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with 13 years of experience. She focuses on relationship concerns alongside a wide range of emotional struggles such as stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and addictions. Shelley approaches therapy in a way that centers each person’s story and strengths. Shelley believes people know their own lives best and brings a collaborative, respectful style to sessions. She listens for what matters most, then helps clients build practical tools to manage daily challenges. Her work includes helping with trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting questions, and coping with major life changes. Shelley uses several therapeutic methods and adapts them to what the person needs. She draws on client-centered techniques to keep the focus on the individual’s goals. Cognitive behavioral ideas are used when clients want concrete strategies for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. For longer-standing patterns, Shelley includes psychodynamic and narrative approaches to help people make sense of how past experiences shape current reactions. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are also part of her toolbox for managing intense emotions and improving coping. Shelley aims to make the first steps manageable. She encourages small, practical actions and helps people notice progress. If you want a respectful partner to talk through relationship concerns or life stressors, Shelley offers steady, experienced support.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Client-centered therapy keeps the person's goals at the center and emphasizes listening and collaboration. Online sessions with this focus let clients lead the conversation while the therapist reflects, clarifies, and helps set achievable steps for change.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, targets thoughts and behavior patterns that keep problems going. In online work CBT often uses concrete exercises, homework, and short skills practice between sessions to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.

Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Delivered online, DBT-style work can teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills that people apply in day-to-day situations.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Shelley will work together with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts techniques as progress and feedback show what helps most.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are available for online work. Online therapy can make scheduling easier, cut commute time, and let people use quieter or more convenient times in their day. It also supports steady follow-through by fitting sessions into a usual routine without promising a specific format.