Shelby Remillard, LMHC

Shelby Remillard, LMHC (she/her) is an Indigenous (Laguna Pueblo) and Filipina therapist working with clients with histories of trauma, grief and loss, and establishing and growing healthy relationships. Clients who connect with Shelby are feeling hurt, lost, or disempowered in their everyday lives and relationships. Shelby likes to co-create the therapeutic space with her clients to allow clients to begin to establish their autonomy. She believes in the healing power of relationships, whether it be between the client and therapist, or within the grief support groups she facilitates.

Shelby is a certified EMDR practitioner and has helped folks work through attachment based, chronic, and single incident trauma. She values the unique opportunity to work adjunctively with folks who want to add EMDR to their ongoing therapy treatment with a different primary therapist. Shelby values collaboration with other care providers and builds a team around her clients to support their hard work.

In addition to EMDR treatment, Shelby incorporates skills from Gestalt therapy, IFS or “parts work”, somatic tracking, and coping and executive functioning skills to help clients build their inner strength and empower them to make decisions towards the life they desire. Shelby also holds a systemic view of mental health, and acknowledges the impacts of systemic barriers and oppression on her clients. With this lens she helps clients build  self-compassion, self-awareness, and self-confidence.

Humor and a strong rapport are important to Shelby. She strives to bring her authentic self to the therapeutic relationships in support of her clients expressing theirs. Along with being a witness to clients’ pains and struggles, Shelby also likes to celebrate their wins and life milestones. Shelby loves to meet the dogs, cats, and occasional toddler that pop on the screen and to hear about recent trips or the last documentary clients watched. Shelby likes to learn about her clients as the whole people they are.

When not working with clients, Shelby finds great value in building her community of BIPOC clinicians and hosting and attending networking events with likeminded folks. A competitive athlete at heart, she is usually in an exercise class in the city or running with the Dead Dad Run Club on Sundays. Shelby loves her friends, her family, her early 2000s emo music, and her reality television shows - all of which fill her cup in different ways so that she is able to be present for clients throughout the week.