About Shelby
Shelby Martini is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, and related concerns. She works with adults facing relationship and family strain, grief, parenting challenges, career questions, mood disorders, and struggles with self-esteem. Shelby aims to make first steps feel doable and clear for people who are overwhelmed.
Shelby uses a warm, respectful approach in sessions. She avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to each client's needs, with practical strategies offered alongside emotional support. Her practice draws on client-centered techniques that prioritize the client's goals and perspective. She also incorporates mindfulness practices to help manage anxiety and build moment-to-moment awareness.
When trauma is part of the story, Shelby works from a trauma-focused lens to address how past events continue to affect daily life. With seven years of professional experience and an Idaho LPC credential, Shelby brings steady clinical experience to common and complex concerns.
She listens for what matters most and shapes sessions around real-world challenges like parenting stress, career transitions, or the ups and downs of bipolar and mood disorders. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Shelby helps people set small, realistic steps and practices to try between meetings.
Her aim is to support clients as they build coping skills, clarify values, and make manageable changes over time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the client's lead. The therapist focuses on understanding a person's perspective, helping them clarify goals and make decisions that fit their values. This approach works well for stress, self-esteem, relationship questions, and life changes.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices to notice thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations without getting swept away. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related distractibility, and building steady coping habits in daily life.
Trauma-Focused Therapy looks at how past events affect current functioning and safety. It uses step-by-step methods to help people reduce distress, process difficult memories, and regain a sense of control over reactions and relationships.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their needs, goals, and preferences, and then try methods that make sense together. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick reflections, ongoing support between meetings, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
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