How Shellby works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Years in practice
- 23
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Shellby
Shellby Custer is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage strong emotions, rebuild self-worth, and get through hard life changes. She brings 23 years of clinical experience to sessions and practices in Pennsylvania. She uses clear, practical work to address anxiety, depression, stress, and anger.
Shellby helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck and develop ways to respond differently. Sessions are aimed at everyday coping, emotional regulation, and making steady progress.
Background and approach
Her approach pays attention to past relationships and how they affect current feelings. She helps people talk through attachment issues, abandonment wounds, and family of origin patterns. That work often connects to struggles with intimacy, shame, and isolation.
Shellby also focuses on trauma and recovery from sexual assault and abuse. She supports people who face grief, chronic illness or pain, and mood disorders such as bipolar or seasonal affective disorder. The goal is to help clients tolerate difficult feelings and find practical steps forward.
Motivation and personal meaning are part of her work too. She uses coaching-style conversations to set goals, boost self-love, and explore life purpose. For people dealing with addictions, sleep problems, or career stress, she blends practical skills with deeper reflection.
Sessions are offered in English for adults and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. The emphasis is on straightforward, compassionate help that fits each person’s life and needs.
What Shellby works with
Everything Shellby lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Shellby's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Shellby lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape today's emotions and connections. Online sessions can look at those patterns through conversation and reflection to reduce shame and improve how someone relates to others.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. It works well over video or messaging because specific skills and homework can be assigned and reviewed between sessions.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Short guided exercises can be practiced during a session and reinforced through text check-ins or brief audio guidance.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and practical needs, then recommend or combine methods to fit that situation. This is a collaborative process and can change as the work progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone works when bandwidth is low or hands-free is needed, live chat and text are helpful for quick check-ins, brief coaching moments, or when scheduling is tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while sticking with consistent sessions.
Questions people ask about Shellby
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, trauma and abuse, and related issues such as grief, addictions, and self-esteem.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is practical and collaborative, combining insight into past relationships with hands-on coping strategies and goal-focused conversations.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 23 years of experience working with adults in clinical settings and independent practice.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Pennsylvania LCSW, licensed to practice as a clinical social worker in Pennsylvania.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people from other countries work with her?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are payments and starting handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time; to begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.