Shelley Stisser , LPC

Shelley Stisser is a licensed professional counselor who uses a client-centered approach to guide people through stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. She draws on tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try new ways of coping. Shelley works from Texas and brings 19 years of experience to sessions.

Shelley invites people to talk about strengths and obstacles in simple, direct ways. She helps uncover how thoughts, habits, and past experiences affect mood and behavior. That often leads to small, practical steps people can try between sessions.

Her work addresses a range of concerns including depression, self-esteem, compulsive behaviors, and panic. Shelley also provides support for struggles with eating, body image, addictions, and caregiver stress. She pays attention to how family of origin issues and guilt or shame can shape daily life.

Shelley blends mindfulness and skill-building to manage intense feelings. Mindfulness exercises and breathing techniques are used alongside cognitive work to reduce reactivity. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are introduced when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed.

Sessions are conversational and focused on practical change. Shelley uses motivational interviewing to strengthen a person’s readiness for change. People can expect a collaborative process that respects their pace and goals.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience, and online sessions follow the same pattern by creating time to talk through strengths and barriers. This approach helps people feel heard and guides the pace of work based on what matters most to them.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. In online sessions CBT can involve tracking thoughts, trying brief behavioral experiments, and practicing new responses between appointments.

Dialectical behavior therapy skills help with emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. These skills are taught in short, repeated lessons that translate well to video, phone, or text formats so people can use them in everyday moments.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will check goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and therapists work together to decide which tools to prioritize and how to practice them between sessions.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging can help keep progress between sessions. These options make it possible to fit therapy into busy schedules and adapt how people prefer to communicate.