About Shirley
Shirley Currier offers calm, practical support for people facing addiction, anxiety, depression, relationship trouble, grief, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and helps clients take small steps that fit their everyday lives.
Background and approach
Shirley is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, practicing in Texas with 19 years of experience. Her work grew out of personal recovery from addiction and long experience counseling people with substance use struggles.
That early work in psychiatric and medical settings led her to study clinical psychology and broaden her approach. She has worked in physician offices, nonprofit programs, day treatment settings, and court diversion programs in Harris County.
In sessions Shirley treats addiction-related problems alongside anxiety, trauma, mood concerns, and relationship and intimacy issues. She listens first, then helps people set realistic goals.
Techniques are practical and skill-based, drawn from cognitive and behavioral methods as well as emotion-focused and acceptance-based ideas. Shirley views each client as the expert on their life.
She offers guidance, coping tools, and a steady, nonjudgmental presence while people try new ways of handling old problems. Her style is straightforward, compassionate, and adaptable to different life choices.
Clients can work with her by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time, with scheduling based on therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck. It teaches values-based actions so clients can move toward a meaningful life even with distress present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and compulsive habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, helps people identify and shift emotional responses that keep them stuck in painful interaction patterns or personal cycles.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Shirley will talk with each person about goals, past efforts, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress or new needs emerge.
Online sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different rhythms of life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a short break or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family, and recovery routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English