Shellby Custer, LCSW

Shellby Custer is a Pennsylvania-based Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 23 years of experience helping people navigate complex emotional and life challenges. She focuses on guiding individuals through difficult transitions, addressing the effects of past trauma, and supporting the development of self-worth and resilience. Her clinical approach blends practical coping strategies with attention to personal values and long-term growth, making room for both immediate relief and lasting change.

Shellby specializes in treating depression, anxiety, stress-related concerns, and trauma and abuse, and she brings particular attention to issues that commonly affect women and young adults. She also works with a wide range of concerns including self-esteem, relationship and family dynamics, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleep difficulties, parenting stress, mood disorders, ADHD, and work-related challenges such as career transitions and compassion fatigue.

Her practice honors each person s unique history and attachment patterns, offering space to explore feelings of isolation, shame, emptiness, and disconnection. Drawing on approaches that include attachment-focused work, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and mindfulness, she helps people rebuild confidence, process painful memories, and clarify life purpose with empathy and clear clinical guidance.

Attachment, CBT, and Mindfulness for Online Care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns of relating. It helps people understand attachment needs and repair patterns that contribute to loneliness, intimacy challenges, or recurring relationship conflicts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, centers on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and developing concrete coping skills to manage day-to-day challenges. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness practices that help reduce rumination and increase present-moment grounding; it often supports work on anxiety, mood regulation, and self-compassion.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Shellby works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjusts direction as progress unfolds. That collaborative stance helps tailor sessions to what matters most to the individual.

Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility for people balancing work, family, and health needs. These options make it easier to maintain regular sessions, access support from home, and integrate therapeutic tools into daily life while working with licensed professionals and therapists who guide the process.