Shelby Martini
Calm, practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shelby
Shelby Martini is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Idaho. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, and issues around identity and relationships. Shelby approaches therapy with warmth and respect and aims to create a space where clients feel heard and not judged.
She uses clear, practical conversation to help people manage symptoms and navigate life changes. Shelby draws on client-centered listening to prioritize each person’s goals.
Background and approach
She also integrates mindfulness and trauma-focused tools when helpful to address intense memories, anxiety, or mood concerns. Shelby has seven years of professional experience working with a wide range of difficulties, including ADHD, bipolar and mood disorders, obsessional problems, addiction concerns, and blended family issues. Her background includes work with people facing abandonment, dissociation, cancer-related stress, and co-occurring conditions.
She explains treatment options in straightforward terms and adapts the plan to each situation. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match what a person is ready for. Shelby avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on practical coping skills, clearer communication, and rebuilding safety after hard experiences.
She encourages small steps and celebrates progress along the way. For people in Idaho seeking a therapist who listens first and tailors care, Shelby offers a direct, compassionate approach and practical strategies to help with daily functioning and recovery.
How Shelby's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns back, and helps people set their own goals. This approach suits people who want a respectful space to clarify values and priorities.Mindfulness therapy uses simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and grounding techniques to manage anxiety or strong emotions. These exercises translate well to video or phone sessions and can be practiced between meetings to improve daily coping.
Trauma-focused therapy involves gently working with memories and reactions to reduce their hold on daily life. Techniques are applied at a pace the person can tolerate, and the therapist checks in often to adjust the work as needed.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Shelby will help figure out what methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and comfort level, and adjust the plan over time. The process is collaborative and paced to what the client wants to try.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue care during transitions. Many people find the variety helps them stay engaged and apply skills in real life between meetings.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Work that takes difficult past experience into account and moves at a pace you set, with attention to feeling steady before anything else. Being in your own space can make that easier for some people.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
Next step
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