About Shelley
Shelley Goldstein is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with six years of counseling experience. She brings a calm, approachable manner to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, and mood concerns. Shelley aims to create a straightforward, supportive space where clients can talk through immediate problems and build practical skills.
Before moving into clinical counseling, she worked in school settings and taught theatre, which shaped her relaxed, flexible style.
Background and approach
In the room she uses clear, human language and a strengths-focused attitude rather than jargon. Clients can expect an easygoing presence that still keeps conversations focused on goals and next steps. Shelley draws from approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, EMDR, and Solution-Focused Therapy.
She blends techniques to match a person's current needs, whether that means learning coping tools, improving communication, or processing past events. The work tends to be collaborative and paced to what each person can manage. Common concerns she helps people with include relationships, self-esteem, grief, trauma and abuse, eating and body image issues, parenting stress, and navigating life changes.
Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment worries, codependency, communication difficulties, and first responder-related stress. Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Fees vary by location and a subscription model is used that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to the therapist's availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then move toward chosen values and actions. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and problems that come from avoidance. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method used to process distressing memories; it can help reduce the emotional intensity around past events and related symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shelley will collaborate with each person to see which methods fit their goals and preferences, and will adjust the plan over time based on what helps most. The process is paced to what the client can handle and focuses on practical change.
Online therapy is offered by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break. Live chat or text can work for quick check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work consistently.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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