Shirley Taylor , LCPC

Shirley Taylor is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 25 years of experience in Kansas. She brings long experience from education, vocational services, and mental health into her work. Shirley focuses on practical help for everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem. She also addresses career concerns, compassion fatigue, addictions, grief, parenting questions, and ADHD-related challenges.

Clients will find a calm, straightforward style in sessions. Shirley aims to listen closely and help people identify small changes that make daily life easier. Conversations often focus on clear goals and steps to try between meetings.

Her background includes work with people facing life transitions, workplace stress, and social anxiety. That experience informs tools for managing anger, communication problems, and relationship strain. She also supports those dealing with trauma, abuse, caregiving stress, and end-of-life issues.

Shirley uses approaches that center the person and build practical skills. Sessions may include testing ideas, changing unhelpful thinking, and setting short-term goals. The emphasis is on what helps the client move forward now.

Therapy sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Shirley describes her role as walking alongside clients, offering steady guidance while they work toward clearer purpose and better daily functioning.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Client-Centered Therapy places the client's views at the center of work. It involves open listening and reflection so people feel heard and can discover their own solutions. This approach is useful for problems like low self-esteem, life purpose questions, and relationship communication.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with practical strategies for managing anxiety, depression, and anger. Sessions often include short exercises to try between meetings.

Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small, workable changes that produce visible results. It emphasizes setting clear goals and testing specific steps. This approach can be helpful for career decisions, coping with transitions, and short-term problem solving.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Shirley collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. She will suggest options and adjust the plan based on what is helpful in real time.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow a typical session experience, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps people stay connected between appointments. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.