Shelby Walkinshaw believes in the innate drive within each person toward growth, wholeness, and balance. Life's challenges can feel overwhelming, but Shelby is here to help you face them with courage and resilience. By creating a safe and compassionate space, she supports her clients in exploring new perspectives, overcoming obstacles, and cultivating the tools needed to build a meaningful and fulfilling life.
Why Choose Shelby Walkinshaw?
- Empathetic and Holistic Approach: Shelby's philosophy guides clients toward integration and balance by tapping into their inner healing intelligence.
- Diverse Expertise: With experience in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling and certifications in end-of-life care and life coaching, Shelby tailors her approach to meet each client's unique needs.
- Deep Understanding: Drawing from her healing journey, Shelby offers genuine empathy and a nuanced perspective on life's transitions and challenges.
Services Offered
Shelby provides individual, couples, and family therapy, specializing in:
- Individual Counseling: Addressing abuse, addictions, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, PTSD, C-PTSD, stress, abandonment issues, bipolar disorder, spirituality, and life coaching.
- Life Transitions: Supporting clients through grief, end-of-life concerns, job transitions, retirement, and restoring meaning to life.
- Relationship and Couples Counseling: Enhancing communication, attachment styles, boundaries, intimacy, and conflict resolution.
- Mental Health and Wellness: Focusing on mindfulness, meditation, somatic awareness, self-care, and managing anxiety, OCD, and stress.
- Family Therapy: Helping with parenting challenges, blended family dynamics, adolescent issues, divorce recovery, and aging parents.
Professional Background
Shelby holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a concentration in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling from Naropa University. She also earned a Master of Arts in Curriculum & Instruction from Concordia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of Wyoming.
Before transitioning into counseling, Shelby worked as an educator, gaining experience as a physical education and health teacher, first-grade teacher, and reading interventionist. This background inspired her to address the often-overlooked mental health needs in education.
In addition to her counseling credentials, Shelby is a certified life coach through the Life Coach Institute and an end-of-life practitioner. She has also trained in Ketamine-Assisted Therapy through the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute (PRATI).
Specialties
- Individual Counseling: Addressing issues like anxiety, PTSD, depression, empowerment, and spirituality.
- Relationships and Couples Therapy: Focusing on communication, intimacy, attachment, and boundaries.
- Family Therapy: Supporting blended families, parenting challenges, and adolescent issues.
Begin Your Journey with Shelby
Shelby Walkinshaw empowers individuals and families to find resilience and fulfillment. Whether navigating a challenging transition, working on personal growth, or seeking clarity in your relationships, Shelby supports you. Start your transformative journey with her at Foundations Counseling today.
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