Shirley Taylor
Compassionate guidance for everyday family challenges
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shirley
Shirley Taylor is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 25 years of practice in Kansas. She draws on long experience in education, vocational services, and mental health to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and career concerns. Shirley uses straightforward language and practical steps so parents and adults can use what they learn right away.
Clients find clear direction in sessions that focus on building confidence and solving everyday problems.
Background and approach
She listens closely and helps people talk through relationship strains, grief, addiction concerns, and compassion fatigue. Shirley also supports those coping with life changes and parenting challenges. Her method is collaborative and rooted in recognized approaches.
She blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused strategies to match each person’s needs. That means sessions can include looking at thought patterns, setting small goals, and practicing new ways to handle stress. Shirley favors an approach that is practical and respectful.
She aims to create a calm space where people can be honest and make steady progress. Expect clear suggestions, short-term planning, and attention to what will help day-to-day. Over the years she has treated a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, parenting, anger, ADHD, and caregiver stress.
Her background in multiple helping fields informs a flexible style that emphasizes real-world skills and achievable steps.
How Shirley’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s perspective. It gives people space to speak freely while the therapist reflects concerns and supports each person’s own strengths. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance and clearer self-understanding.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions. In sessions clients learn simple skills to notice unhelpful thoughts and replace them with practical steps. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.
Solution-focused therapy concentrates on small, achievable steps and what works now. Sessions identify concrete goals and quick experiments to try between meetings. This approach can be helpful when someone wants focused change in a short time frame.
Picking the right approach is part of the therapy process. Shirley will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She often blends techniques to match what a client wants to accomplish and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to get support from home. The variety of options also lets people try different ways of working to see what feels most helpful.
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.
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.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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