About Shelley
Shelley Hill is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, ADHD, and related life changes. Shelley offers a calm, straightforward approach and adapts to each person’s needs.
She works with individuals who want both emotional listening and practical guidance. Her style balances warm presence with clear direction. Shelley believes many reactions come from below conscious thought, so talking alone may not solve them.
Background and approach
She uses several methods to create changes that last instead of quick fixes. Sessions can include focused conversation, body-centered work, or brief structured techniques depending on the problem. Shelley draws on methods that support emotional regulation, improved communication, and healthier patterns.
She often helps people rebuild self-worth, handle caregiving strain, navigate illness or loss, and address complex trauma or dissociation. She also supports people facing body image, eating, or sleep struggles and those coping with major life transitions. Working with her tends to be collaborative and practical.
Shelley aims to understand each person fully and then offers steps to try between sessions. She mixes empathy and occasional humor to keep the work human and doable. Based in Illinois, Shelley brings long-term clinical experience to online and remote sessions.
She expects therapy to be steady work and values the effort people make toward healthier, more manageable lives.
Online approaches that focus on feeling and change
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and quiet anxious thinking. It can help with stress, sleep problems, and staying present during difficult emotions. Somatic Therapy pays attention to the body and sensations, using gentle awareness and movement to release tension that often holds emotional pain. It can be useful for trauma, chronic pain, and anxiety. The Gottman Method offers structured tools for improving communication and resolving conflict in relationships, focused on practical skills and patterns that can be practiced between sessions.Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. Shelley will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences before suggesting methods. She often blends techniques so sessions match what is happening that week and what a person feels ready to try.
Online therapy with Shelley is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make it easier to fit work into life. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or when someone prefers written reflection. These options provide flexibility and make regular support more practical for busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English