Shelly Grabiak

Shelly Grabiak is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Florida who brings 5 years of professional therapy experience, along with a longer background that began in suicide prevention, domestic violence, and community hotlines and continued across hospitals, clinics, addiction and mental health treatment settings, and palliative and hospice home care. Her work is grounded in a strengths-based belief that people are already worthy and capable, and that therapy can help clarify direction, strengthen motivation, and support more aligned choices in daily life.

She has experience supporting first responders, service members, aviation professionals, teachers, survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, older adults, and overwhelmed caregivers, and she welcomes the opportunity to grow alongside many different clients. Shelly focuses on concerns such as stress and anxiety, relationship and attachment challenges, trauma and PTSD, grief and bereavement, addiction and codependency, and coping with major life changes, with additional attention to areas like chronic pain, illness and disability, communication difficulties, guilt and shame, family problems, and end-of-life concerns.

Her approach draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques, including EMDR, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Trauma-Informed Yoga, Solution-Focused Therapy, and strengths-based work. Shelly emphasizes authenticity, courage, integrity, and compassion, and she follows the ethics of the National Association of Social Work while continuing to learn through ongoing training and education.