About Shellby
Shellby Custer is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience supporting people through difficult life moments. She focuses on helping clients who struggle with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and trauma-related concerns. Her style is direct and caring, aimed at practical change rather than labels.
Shellby uses clear, talk-based methods to help people manage symptoms and build skills. She helps clients develop coping tools for mood changes, sleep problems, and overwhelming worry.
Background and approach
She also works with people facing grief, addiction, career strain, and compassion fatigue. Her work pays close attention to attachment and relationship patterns. That often means looking at early family dynamics and how they still shape current relationships and self-worth.
She guides clients in naming those patterns and trying different ways of relating that feel safer and more honest. Sessions typically include hands-on strategies from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness exercises to steady attention and calm. Narrative techniques are used to rewrite hard stories into more balanced ones.
Motivational interviewing helps people find internal reasons to try new behavior. Shellby frames therapy as a step-by-step process. She helps clients set realistic goals, track small wins, and adjust plans as life changes.
People meet her for a mix of short-term problem solving and longer work on deeper patterns, depending on their needs.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current feelings and behavior, and it helps people learn different ways to connect and feel safer in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying out new behaviors to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and manage ADHD-related challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your concerns, talk about goals, and suggest which methods to try first. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made or needs shift.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls work well for fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat or text sessions allow shorter check-ins and more flexible timing between appointments, which can help when schedules are tight.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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