About Shelly
Shelly Sanders is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and grief. She speaks plainly and meets people where they are, offering steady support during hard times. Shelly works from Idaho and uses an approachable, down-to-earth style.
She favors a client-centered way of working. That means sessions focus on the person's goals and values. Shelly combines that with practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to help change unhelpful thoughts and routines.
Background and approach
She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior. When trauma is part of the story, Shelly may use EMDR techniques or bilateral stimulation alongside other approaches. She also uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Together, therapist and client build a plan that fits the person’s needs and time frame. Shelly has nine years of experience as a therapist and broader experience in mental health settings. Her background includes work with a range of concerns such as parenting stress, communication problems, anger, addictions, eating and sleeping issues, and caregiver strain.
She aims to be compassionate and practical in session. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person. Shelly focuses on concrete steps you can try between meetings, while also making room to talk through feelings and history.
If you want straightforward help with everyday problems or deeper trauma work, she offers a mix of talk, skills, and targeted techniques to move things forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how relationships and early patterns affect present feelings. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns, try new ways of relating, and practice different responses in day-to-day life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. In remote sessions CBT can be very practical with homework, skill practice, and regular check-ins to track progress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shelly will collaborate with clients to choose methods that fit goals, needs, and comfort level. That might mean starting with client-centered conversation, adding CBT skills for daily coping, or bringing in EMDR techniques for trauma when both agree it feels appropriate.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief support, tracking progress, or sending worksheets between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
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