Shirley Williams, LCSW, CSW

Shirley Williams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Colorado with 35 years of practice experience. She works with people facing relationship and family strain, trauma and abuse, grief, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and stress. She also addresses intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and coping with life changes.

Shirley trained in social work after earning a BA in psychology and a Master of Social Work. Early in her career she completed an intensive family therapy program and has continued through many advanced trainings. She has worked in health care, hospice, schools, foster care and adoption programs, pregnancy services, and with people who are disabled and their caregivers.

Her clinical approach draws on trauma-focused work, narrative methods, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR. She also integrates somatic tools from massage and bodywork training to address how the body holds stress and trauma. Sessions sometimes include expressive arts, sound, movement, or clay when those methods fit a person's goals.

Shirley describes herself as curious and prefers practical, hands-on ways to help people manage difficult memories and ongoing life pressures. She brings experience with hospice and end-of-life counseling, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and obsessive or trauma-related symptoms.

People interested in starting can expect a practitioner who blends talk therapy with experiential methods. She offers approaches aimed at resolving trauma, improving communication, and helping people find steadier day-to-day functioning.

Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions