About Shellby
Shellby Custer is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She works in Pennsylvania and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Shellby aims to help clients rebuild self-esteem and find steadier ways to manage strong feelings.
Her practice pays attention to how early relationships shape current struggles. She uses approaches that examine patterns, meaning, and present-day responses to help people understand why they react the way they do.
Background and approach
Sessions often include clear skills to reduce anxiety and tools for improving mood. Shellby also focuses on life transitions and recovery from abuse. She helps people process grief, work through feelings of abandonment, and manage symptoms related to mood and personality challenges.
Conversations address both immediate coping and longer-term goals for personal growth. She brings together practical strategies and reflective conversation. That can mean using mindfulness practices to calm the body and cognitive techniques to shift stressful thinking.
Narrative methods are used to clarify personal stories and find new perspectives. People who reach out usually want straightforward support for things like sleep trouble, parenting strain, work stress, or patterns that keep repeating. Shellby helps create manageable plans for change and supports people as they try new ways of handling old problems.
Online approaches that blend insight and skills
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice connection needs and try new ways of relating to themselves and others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers concrete tools to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change unhelpful thinking. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to calm the body and reduce reactivity, which can help with stress, anger, and emotional pain.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shellby will work with each person to identify goals and preferences, then try methods that feel useful. Over time she adjusts the plan based on what helps most, mixing insight-oriented conversation with skills practice when needed.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions let people read facial cues and use visual tools, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging provide brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English