about

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SHELLEY FAULKNER (she/her) is a Charlottesville-based counselor with over fifteen years of experience supporting and improving the lives of youth and their families. Shelley’s goal is to guide youth through a wide range of processes in order to enhance emotional well-being, social skills, and self-esteem.  She specializes in working one-and-one with children and teenagers who struggle with age-appropriate behaviors, interpersonal communication, problem-solving and conflict resolution, and relating appropriately to other youth and adults.

Shelley has a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She served as an in-home counselor at Charlottesville League of Therapists from 2006-2011, using the structural family systems model of therapy and specialized in attachment work through a trauma informed approach for children and their families.

Shelley is part of Blue Ridge Therapy Associates, a group of independent therapists of various specialties who receive training and supervision with the relationship model of therapy.

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Shelley hopes to provide reparative emotional experiences that create healing and growth for her clients through safe connection and authenticity.