About Shirley
Shirley Grube is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with four decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that fit into daily life. Shirley emphasizes each person's strengths and encourages small, steady changes.
Shirley uses straightforward methods to help people regain motivation and build self-esteem. She works with issues like grief, life transitions, anger, and addiction-related concerns. Sessions aim to identify workable strategies and to practice them between visits.
Background and approach
Her approach values empowerment and courage. Shirley believes clients are the experts on their own lives and focuses on what they already do well. She helps people translate those strengths into tools for facing hard moments.
Shirley draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, using clear techniques to notice unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors. This often involves setting small goals, trying new routines, and tracking what works. The aim is better coping, clearer thinking, and fewer automatic reactions.
Clients can expect an encouraging, steady guide who emphasizes realistic steps. Shirley offers practical suggestions and follows progress over time. Her style is calm, direct, and focused on real-world results.
How CBT and online sessions work together
Shirley uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice patterns of thought that increase stress or anxiety and to try new behaviors that can reduce those feelings. CBT sessions often include short exercises, goal-setting, and tracking what changes between meetings, which can be especially useful for problems like anxiety, panic, or ADHD-related focus challenges.Finding the right method is a shared process. Shirley works with each person to decide which techniques fit their needs and daily routine. She checks in on what helps, adjusts plans, and supports gradual steps so clients can build confidence and momentum together with their therapist.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and working through worksheets together. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Text and chat formats make it easier to fit short check-ins into a busy day or to get ongoing reminders and coaching between longer sessions. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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