Shelby Love-Daley , LICSW

Shelby Love-Daley is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who practices with a person-centered approach. She emphasizes the client's own strengths and choices while helping them face stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Shelby frames therapy as a team effort where the client leads and she offers guidance and support.

Shelby draws on cognitive behavioral tools to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotional regulation and mindfulness techniques to build calm and focus. Motivational interviewing helps when someone needs support finding the drive to make changes.

Many people come to Shelby for help with parenting stress, relationship and communication problems, and challenges tied to pregnancy and childbirth. She also supports people coping with ADHD, impulsivity, panic attacks, trauma and post-traumatic stress, addiction, and compassion fatigue. Women's issues are a named focus area in her work.

With nine years of practice in Massachusetts, Shelby brings steady, practical experience to sessions. She favors clear, everyday language and short-term strategies alongside deeper exploration when it feels right. Sessions aim to be straightforward and useful from the start.

Shelby encourages people to bring what matters most to them into sessions, whether that means immediate coping skills or longer-term changes. She helps set realistic goals and checks in on progress so therapy stays aligned with each person's needs.

Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work

Client-centered therapy places the person's own goals and values at the center of care. Shelby listens closely and follows what matters to the client, building on strengths and real-life priorities to guide each session.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and then practice concrete changes. It is useful for anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and stress by breaking problems into manageable steps and tracking progress.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Shelby may teach grounding, distress-tolerance, and emotion regulation techniques to use between sessions.

Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. Shelby will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That shared decision-making helps tailor practical tools and longer-term strategies.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video enables face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone is a lower-bandwidth option for check-ins, live chat allows quick exchanges, and messaging supports brief reflections or ongoing check-ins. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.