Shirley Grube
Practical, steady therapy using CBT principles
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shirley
Shirley Grube uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people make practical changes in how they think and act. She is a licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of experience and works from Pennsylvania. Her style is straightforward and encouraging.
She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and life changes. Shirley helps people name the problems that feel overwhelming and then break them into small, manageable steps.
Background and approach
She often uses CBT tools to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more useful thoughts and actions. She also addresses addictions, grief, trauma and abuse, and anger through focused conversation and concrete coping strategies. Her work includes attention to career concerns, communication problems, workplace issues, and challenges like panic attacks or attention-deficit symptoms.
She supports people coping with loss, hospice and end-of-life issues, and feelings of isolation or loneliness. Shirley emphasizes strengths and boosts confidence as part of recovery. Shirley values collaboration and calls on each person as the expert on their own life.
She encourages small steps and practical changes rather than long, abstract talk. Many clients find the direct, steady approach helps when routines and responsibilities feel hard to manage. Shirley offers sessions in English and provides help through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Her work is grounded in real-world problem solving and steadiness built from decades of practice.
CBT-informed care delivered online for everyday problems
Shirley uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on identifying thinking patterns that make stress or anxiety worse and practicing different ways of responding that reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.The choice of approach is a shared decision. Shirley will work together with each person to find what fits best based on their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean focusing on thought patterns one week and building coping routines the next, adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to schedule around work, school, or caregiving duties and let people use tools and homework in the moment. The flexibility helps people try therapy in ways that fit their life while still using clear CBT techniques and practical problem solving.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Shirley
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point