Clients Experiences

Quotes from our Clients…

I am able to regulate my emotions. I was able to delve into my life to learn the what and why’s. I am confident in myself and safe. I am sticking up for myself and putting myself first instead of last.

It's helped me identify issues that I have and to work on them.

Therapy gave me tools for daily life to manage my ADHD and Trauma therapy gave me tools to manage my fight or flight response.

Therapy with Shelley got me out of my depression and helped get life back on track.

Having a positive voice and mindset to talk to was the biggest help for me. I was always a positive person that loved life and I lost that for awhile but Shelly helped me get pieces of the old me back.

Shelley got me through a rough time. She mainly helped me by validating me and helping me to process trauma. She was instrumental in me making it through one of the toughest times in my life.

Therapy helped me realize that I am good enough and that I am strong. A lot of what I was feeling after talking with Shelley made me realize having an alcoholic parent resulted in some trauma and low self esteem. She helped me realize it was not my fault and the little girl in me needed to heal.

I am a Christian and her approach served me well. At one point I didn't want to deal with something and just wanted EMDR. She helped me process it with the EMDR to reprogram my brain.

I like that she's cancelled very few sessions. She doesn't mind giving personal examples of similar situations in her own life.

She gives me one or two tools every week to put into practice. It’s tiny bites instead of tons of resources that would overwhelm and paralyze me. As a result, I’ve been able to stack habits each week and I notice a HUGE difference in daily life with very small consistent changes.

This provided a new way to look at my issues nobody had proposed before.

I appreciated that she was always honest, we discussed things that I could do better and somethings that I could potentially be doing wrong. She always ended our sessions with positive comments about me that gave me self-worth.

She was phenomenal. She was flexible and reliable and she was a consistent presence in my life to reassure me that I would survive the storm I was going through.

There were numerous tools Shelley gave me to help me when I get intrusive thoughts. We started off with breathing and hugging or tapping to help relax. Shelley helped me tremendously; she was perfect for me.

Four therapists later she was the most successful one in helping me with my trauma.

I enjoyed our sessions.

I look forward to my weekly appointments. I have had therapists in the past but we only talked. This time with Shelley I am being taught skills. It’s made all the difference in my healing.

I just want to say thank you one more time for everything. Life is still difficult but I’m living a life closer to God and it gets better each day.

I really needed a counselor like her at the time she worked with me. I will forever be grateful to her.

I can’t thank Shelley enough for her help. In talking with her she helped me realize so many things - my strengths, why I had some of my intrusive thoughts, how the brain reacts to different stresses and thoughts. I feel blessed and thankful that I was able to work with Shelley. Thank you!