About Shelby
Shelby Fryar is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and struggles with self-esteem or life changes. She works with concerns like grief, intimacy-related issues, eating challenges, and compassion fatigue. Shelby welcomes people who feel stuck getting through day-to-day life and those who want practical skills to cope better.
Shelby uses a client-centered style that lets each person guide the focus of sessions. She brings a mix of approaches to the room, including Attachment-Based Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Trauma-Focused Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.
How Shelby works
In simple terms, sessions combine listening, skill practice, and targeted trauma work when needed. Her experience includes independent practice and work in residential settings that involved crisis and addiction care. Shelby holds licenses as an LPC in Tennessee and Texas.
She draws on this background to support people through transitions, mood disorders, and complex situations like dissociation, domestic violence, and co-occurring substance concerns. In therapy, Shelby focuses on skills such as mindfulness, understanding thought patterns, and exploring motivation for change. Conversations are practical and paced to each person’s comfort.
The aim is to help clients make small, sustainable changes that improve daily functioning. Sessions are conducted in English and Shelby works with people located in Tennessee. To begin, a client follows the platform’s intake steps to match and schedule with her.
Shelby lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Shelby works with
The areas below are the ones Shelby selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Shelby’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape how people feel and react. In practice it looks at patterns from past relationships and helps develop safer ways to connect and regulate emotions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes skills such as mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. It is useful for people who want concrete tools to manage strong emotions and behavior. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that works on reducing the intensity of traumatic memories and the distress they cause.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shelby collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. That means trying skills-based tools, exploring attachment patterns, or using trauma-focused techniques when appropriate, all chosen together based on what the person needs.
Confirm the available session options before booking, as specific formats are set by the practice. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter or more flexible check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can guide practical skill practice, walk through emotion regulation steps, and deliver trauma-focused interventions in a way that fits day-to-day routines.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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