About Shelby
Shelby Grimes is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida who helps people facing relationship strain, trauma, identity questions, and big life changes. She emphasizes a respectful, down-to-earth approach and invites clients to bring their real concerns to sessions. Shelby encourages small steps that build on strengths already present in each person.
With 11 years of experience, Shelby combines several practical approaches to fit each situation. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral work to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new actions.
Background and approach
Attachment-focused ideas guide work on closeness, trust, and how past experiences shape current relationships. Shelby also uses acceptance and commitment strategies to help people clarify what matters most and take committed action toward those values. Emotion-focused methods are used when feelings are tangled in relationship pain or intimacy concerns.
Sessions are conversational and paced to what each person needs in the moment. She has worked with people facing LGBT concerns, intimacy-related issues, and trauma and abuse. Other focus areas include communication problems, body image, dissociation, and coping with separation or divorce.
Shelby also supports those dealing with isolation, impulsivity, and questions about life purpose. Shelby aims to create a collaborative space where clients are treated as the experts on their own lives. She helps people set clear goals and practice concrete skills between sessions.
If someone wants practical, compassionate support for relationship or identity wounds, Shelby offers direction and steady encouragement.
Approach to Online Therapy and Working Together
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without being ruled by them and then take small steps toward what matters. It is useful for managing anxiety, identity doubts, and major life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past connections influence current relationships and helps people build more supported ways of relating and communicating.Finding the right method is part of the work. Shelby will explore a client's goals, preferences, and needs and then suggest which approaches to try. That process is collaborative and revisited as progress unfolds so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single model.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and reading visual cues, phone calls can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth, and text or chat work for short updates or when messaging fits a busy schedule. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on consistent, practical steps toward the client's goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English