About Shelley
Shelley Buck is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting worries, and questions about identity. She supports clients dealing with ADHD, self-esteem struggles, compassion fatigue, and life changes. Shelley offers a calm, direct style and aims to make therapy clear and useful from the first session.
Shelley uses somatic approaches to help people notice how their body holds emotions and to find practical ways to shift those patterns.
Background and approach
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify values and make choices that match what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. Sessions often include simple skills practice, grounding, and brief experiments clients can try between meetings.
Shelley explains steps plainly and coaches people through each technique. Parents find this helpful when juggling family demands and emotional overwhelm. Shelley holds a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is licensed in Texas as an LPC, license number TX LPC 89527.
Her work is informed by attention to attachment, communication patterns, and how past family dynamics shape present choices. Conversations are tailored to each person’s goals and pacing. Shelley helps people weigh options, practice new responses, and build steadier routines.
The aim is to leave sessions with at least one practical thing to try before the next meeting.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic Therapy helps people tune in to bodily signals and gentle movement to relieve tension and interrupt stress patterns. It can be useful for anxiety, overwhelm, and feeling stuck in the body. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters and taking small, committed steps toward those values even when uncomfortable feelings show up. It is helpful for life changes, low mood, and chronic worry. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses small experiments to test new ways of thinking and behaving, which often reduces anxiety and improves daily functioning.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, try techniques in session, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to keep, what to modify, and when to introduce new strategies.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. These options allow work on breathing, grounding, thought exercises, and short homework between meetings. The variety of formats gives flexibility for real-time conversation or quieter, written check-ins depending on a person’s needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English