About Shelby
Shelby Fryar is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and depression. She also supports those coping with grief, low self-esteem, relationship or intimacy concerns, and major life changes. Shelby is based in Tennessee and draws on practical skills to help people manage day-to-day challenges.
Shelby brings experience from independent practice and residential settings where she worked with acute crisis and addiction. She emphasizes a client-directed approach so people choose what to work on and how quickly to move.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on learning concrete skills for managing strong emotions and unwanted behaviors. Her work draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and trauma-focused methods such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. In sessions Shelby uses mindfulness, attention to thought patterns, and motivation strategies to help people make changes that matter to them.
She offers steady support while helping people build coping tools for compassion fatigue, substance use concerns, eating and body image worries, attachment and abandonment issues, and post-traumatic stress. Shelby also addresses concerns tied to pregnancy and childbirth, adoption and foster care, dissociation, and gender dysphoria when they arise in therapy. Shelby aims to make therapy a practical part of everyday life.
She works with each person to set goals, practice new skills between sessions, and notice small changes over time.
How Shelby’s approaches translate to online work
Many of Shelby's methods aim to help people notice what matters and build useful skills. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people understand emotional needs and responses. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers clear skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and practicing mindfulness in daily life. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, is a trauma-focused method used to reduce the intensity of distressing memories and the reactions they trigger.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Shelby works collaboratively with each person to decide which methods fit their history, goals, and preferences. She will adjust pacing and techniques as clients try different strategies and notice what helps.
The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into busy days and keeping therapy consistent during life transitions. Because the biography does not specify session formats, confirm current options before booking to know what is offered. Many people find that online work makes it easier to schedule shorter check-ins, maintain regular practice between sessions, and use learned skills in real-time situations. Shelby aims to help clients translate what happens in a session into everyday change.
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What this counselor works with
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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Texas
- Languages
- English