Shelby Taulbee

Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor — Ohio

Shelby provides individual counseling for adults and young adults navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, substance use and recovery, relationship difficulties, and other complex life challenges. She takes time to understand the whole person, including the experiences, relationships, and environments that shape how they think, feel, and respond to the world.

Shelby’s style is direct, conversational, and nonjudgmental. She welcomes difficult questions and complicated experiences, and clients do not need to have the right words or a clear starting point. She asks thoughtful questions, offers observations, and helps clients explore recurring patterns with curiosity and compassion. Sessions may include practical strategies and structure, time for deeper reflection, or a combination of both, depending on the client’s needs.

Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), existential therapy, Motivational Interviewing, trauma-informed interventions, psychoeducation, and strengths-based approaches. Shelby helps clients understand how earlier experiences and learned coping responses may influence their present lives. Together, they explore which patterns remain helpful and what changes feel meaningful and realistic. Clients are encouraged to ask questions, share their perspectives, and speak up when something does not fit.

Shelby holds a Master of Education and is independently licensed in Ohio as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. She also holds credentials as a Chemical Dependency Counselor Assistant, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, and Spiritual Counselor, Certified. She brings more than four years of experience practicing as a therapist and approximately 10 years of experience working with people facing complex behavioral health needs. Her background spans inpatient psychiatric care, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, outpatient, community-based, substance-use, and dual-diagnosis settings.

Her experience includes supporting people affected by complex trauma, serious mental illness, grief, ADHD and executive-functioning difficulties, family and attachment concerns, and questions of identity, meaning, and purpose. She has also facilitated therapy and psychoeducational groups and worked with clients from diverse cultural, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Shelby offers in-person appointments at Self Care Counseling’s Loveland office and telehealth services for clients located in Ohio. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time on her farm with her animals and exploring psychology, symbolism, spirituality, and the ways people find meaning in their experiences.