About Shelley
Shelley Hill is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy struggles, and addiction. She works with people who are coping with major life changes, low self-esteem, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Shelley also supports people facing sleep or eating issues and those dealing with chronic illness, caregiving strain, or cancer-related concerns. She offers a calm, straightforward style. Sessions balance talk with body-focused approaches where appropriate, because many feelings live below conscious thought.
Background and approach
Shelley believes understanding is useful, but that lasting change often comes from shifting patterns held in the body as well as the mind. Her work blends practical tools and experiential methods. She uses somatic practices, mindfulness, and solution-focused strategies to help people manage symptoms and try new ways of responding.
For relationship concerns she draws on the Gottman Method to address communication and connection. Shelley aims to be present, compassionate, and respectful in sessions. She matches the level of direction to each person’s needs - sometimes offering clear steps, sometimes creating space for processing feelings.
Humor and warmth are part of her approach when it feels right. She practices in Illinois as an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker). People meet her online via a mix of video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
To begin, clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule based on therapist availability.
Somatic and Practical Approaches for Online Care
Shelley uses Somatic Therapy to notice how stress and emotions show up in the body, then works with breath, movement, and awareness to help people shift those patterns. This can be useful for trauma, chronic tension, and anxiety where words alone feel incomplete.She also uses the Gottman Method for relationship work, focusing on communication skills, repairing conflicts, and rebuilding connection in practical steps. Hypnotherapy is another tool she offers that uses guided relaxation and focused attention to help people change habits and access deeper resources for change.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Shelley will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to emphasize body-based practices, relationship skills, brief solution-focused work, or a combination of methods.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, continue work during transitions, and practice strategies in the settings where problems happen most.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English