Shelley Duncan , LCP

Shelley Duncan is a Kansas-licensed counselor with 15 years of professional experience. She focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, relationship friction, family concerns, career strain, and life transitions. Shelley approaches work with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone seeking a more fulfilling life.

Clients can expect direct, down-to-earth conversations that get to the heart of daily struggles. Shelley uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Sessions emphasize clear goals, small steps, and skills people can use between meetings.

She also supports those coping with trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy concerns, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care issues, attachment and family-of-origin difficulties, codependency, body image, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. Shelley tailors discussions and plans to each person’s situation rather than applying a one-size-fits-all method.

Therapy conversations cover practical coping strategies, communication skills, and ways to rebuild routines that feel meaningful. Shelley works with people who want a mix of coaching and therapy to meet life goals or manage ongoing stress. She offers multiple online session formats to fit busy schedules.

People who prefer straightforward guidance and collaborative problem solving often find this approach helpful. Shelley invites thoughtful questions and shared decision making about goals and the pace of work together.

How Shelley Uses CBT Online and What to Expect

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, anger, and many day-to-day stressors by breaking problems into concrete steps clients can practice between sessions.

In online work Shelley keeps sessions practical and collaborative. She and the client decide together which strategies to try, set small goals, and review what worked. That collaboration helps find the best approach for each person’s needs and goals rather than assuming one method fits everyone.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls are useful for fuller conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, homework questions, or when someone prefers typing to speaking.

These options give flexibility for scheduling around work, caregiving, or travel and let people try different formats as their needs change. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT techniques across these formats so clients can practice skills and keep progress moving forward.