About Shirley
Shirley Taylor is a Kansas-licensed clinical professional counselor with 25 years of experience. She brings long-term practice in education, vocational services, and mental health to her work. Shirley focuses on everyday problems that make life harder, such as stress, anxiety, depression, motivation, and issues tied to self-esteem and confidence.
She takes a down-to-earth, compassionate approach. Sessions are practical and aim to help people make small, lasting changes. Shirley listens first, then helps people set clear goals and try steps they can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background across schools, workplaces, and clinical settings gives her tools for career concerns and coaching-style support. She often helps people manage compassion fatigue, grief, and the fallout from trauma in straightforward ways. ADHD is also listed among her areas of focus, so she regularly supports people who name attention and organization challenges.
Shirley uses methods that center the person and focus on solving current problems. She draws from client-centered conversations, cognitive behavioral techniques, and solution-focused work to tailor the plan. The aim is to build practical skills rather than rely on jargon.
People who do best with her style want a collaborative, goal-oriented partnership. They often come looking for help with coping during life changes, repairing important relationships, or getting unstuck at work. Sessions move at a pace set by the client and emphasize doable steps.
Her practice is offered in English and she works with adults seeking help for a wide range of concerns. Shirley describes her role as a steady guide who helps people find what works next in their lives.
How Shirley’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person as the expert on their life. The therapist offers a nonjudgmental space and follows the client's lead to clarify values and goals. This can help with low self-esteem, isolation, and finding direction.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses clear exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing impulsivity or ADHD-related struggles.
Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on what is already working and builds practical steps toward short-term goals. It is often helpful for people who want direct, forward-moving strategies for career issues, motivation, and coping with life transitions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Shirley will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video calls allow deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging works well for ongoing brief reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats to see what works best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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