Shirley Williams, LCSW, CSW

Shirley Williams is a Colorado LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) with 35 years of practice. She works with adults who are wrestling with relationship strain, grief, trauma, stress, anxiety, ADHD, anger, and related life changes. She brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions and focuses on helping people manage feelings that get in the way of daily life.

She trained in social work at Wayne State University and completed a two-year Intensive Family Therapy program early in her career. That foundation led to work across settings including health care, hospice, schools, foster care and adoption, and pregnancy services. Shirley also trained in massage and bodywork, which informs a somatic perspective she sometimes brings into therapy.

Her clinical methods include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Narrative Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. She has added expressive tools such as sound, movement, clay and other arts to support trauma resolution and emotional processing. In recent years she has used approaches like The Flash Technique alongside EMDR for trauma work.

Sessions are practical and activity-oriented when helpful. Shirley often introduces movement or simple expressive exercises to help people notice and change patterns. Her work frequently connects past attachment and abandonment wounds to present-day anger, control issues, intimacy struggles, and relationship pain.

People who come for help with sleeping, eating, caregiver stress, chronic illness, or vocational strain will find attention to both thoughts and bodily experience. To begin, prospective clients follow the site process to match and schedule a first session.

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