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Shelby Fryar, LPC

  • Experience3 years
  • LocationTennessee
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Addictions, and Trauma and abuse
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Attachment-Based Therapy
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About Shelby

Shelby Fryar is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Tennessee and Texas. She helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, and trauma-related concerns.

Background and approach

Shelby is also available to support those dealing with grief, intimacy and relationship struggles, body image, and the strain of life changes. Shelby draws on Internal Family Systems along with trauma-focused tools to guide sessions.

She uses skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to teach mindfulness, explore helpful thinking patterns, and look at why behaviors happen. Sessions are client-directed so people set the pace and topics for their work together.

Her background includes work in independent practice and residential settings where she supported people in acute crisis and addiction recovery. That experience informs a practical approach to day-to-day coping and relapse prevention.

Shelby makes space for both immediate needs and longer-term healing. In a typical session she will listen and ask questions to clarify goals, then introduce skills or experiments you can try between meetings.

Many people find this mix of inner exploration and skill building helpful when managing mood, stress, and trauma reactions. Shelby aims to help clients find clearer ways to handle hard moments.

She offers services in English and holds LPC credentials in Tennessee and Texas. To begin, follow the site's steps to match with her and schedule an appointment according to availability.

How Shelby Uses Therapeutic Methods Online

Internal Family Systems helps people notice and talk to the different parts inside them - the critical part, the hurt part, the protective part - and learn gentler ways to relate to those parts. This approach can help with trauma responses, shame, and persistent patterns that feel stuck.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds and reactions. It helps people understand connection, trust, and patterns in close relationships and can be useful for intimacy worries, abandonment fears, and attachment issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shelby will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She listens to what matters most and tailors the mix of inner work and skill teaching accordingly.

Before booking, confirm which session formats she currently offers. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also support continuity of care during life changes. Licensed professionals adapt tools like EMDR preparation, DBT skills practice, and IFS inner work to an online setting so therapy can remain practical and focused on real-life coping.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Shelby support?
Shelby works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating concerns, and compassion fatigue. She also focuses on related issues such as attachment, body image, dissociation, and post-traumatic stress.
How would you describe her approach in sessions?
Her style is client-centered and collaborative. She listens first, then introduces skills from DBT and Motivational Interviewing and uses internal work to explore parts of yourself.
What experience does she bring to therapy?
Shelby has three years of clinical experience working in independent practice and residential settings where she supported people in acute crisis and with addiction concerns.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with licensure in Tennessee and Texas and practices from Tennessee.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English only.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to start working together?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyAddictionsTrauma and abuseSelf esteemCoping with life changes

Also works with

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersDepressionCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAttachment issuesBody imageCo-morbidityDissociationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionGender dysphoriaGuilt and shameIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMood disordersPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthSexualityWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyDialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)Motivational InterviewingTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

3+ years

Licensed

Tennessee, Texas

Languages

English