Shelia Storey
Compassionate, pragmatic support for lasting change
LPC Georgia
- Experience
- 20 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Addictions, Trauma and abuse, Parenting
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Shelia
Shelia Storey is a licensed professional counselor in Georgia with two decades of clinical experience helping people navigate addictions, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and self-esteem concerns.
Background and approach
She works from a strengths-based perspective that centers the client as the expert in their own life while offering guidance, structure, and practical skills to support change. Her background includes work with motivation, confidence, caregiver stress, substance-related challenges, and financial stressors.
Shelia emphasizes collaboration and respect, combining client-centered principles with evidence-informed techniques to meet each person where they are. She draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical skills, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused methods to help clients set goals, build coping skills, and address patterns that maintain distress.
Shelia encourages those taking the first step toward therapy and supports clients through each stage of the process, tailoring interventions to individual needs and priorities.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online work
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and adjusting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce distress and build more effective coping. It is often used for issues like anxiety, low self-esteem, and patterns that contribute to addiction. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and supporting the client's own insight so they feel understood and empowered to make changes. This approach helps people explore values, strengths, and personal goals in a nonjudgmental way.
Finding the right mix of techniques is part of the collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, combining skill-building and reflective work as appropriate rather than using a single rigid method.
Online sessions offer flexible access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing clients to choose formats that suit their schedules and comfort levels. These options can make it easier to maintain consistency with appointments and to practice skills between sessions, while therapists adapt exercises and check-ins to the communication mode a client prefers.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
20+ years
Licensed
Georgia
Languages
English