Greetings!
I’m Ronda Shirley. I will assist you with both developing and identifying safe spaces so that you can have extraordinary relationships.
Helping you to manage your fears so that you can live a life filled with peace, passion, pleasure, and purpose.
Being a mother to 2 young adults and a wife for over 2 decades, I’ve learned that relationships are alive and need care. Relationships have to be fed. They require attention, watering and sometimes pruned. They can be both challenging and rewarding at the EXACT same time.
About Me
Allow me to tell you a bit about my journey to becoming a therapist. I became a therapist because I wanted to be for others what I needed for myself. See, I totally get it. I’ve been there, too. I’ve been in spaces where I felt that having relationships would put me at a huge disadvantage. I would lose my edge. People could control me if I connected with them relationally. If I allowed myself to connect, I would be… unsafe. Believe me when I say that this wasn’t something that occurred out of the blue. Oh no, on the contrary. I can remember being a young girl and feeling this way. I didn’t want to be seen as needy, cry baby. God knows that I didn’t want to be seen as angry, weak or easily excitable as a professional. Living in a world filled with microaggressions and unspoken rules connections can create even greater challenges to creating healthy, whole and functional relationships.
About You
Relationships are an essential part of humanity. You can’t run away from them no matter how hard you try. None of us are islands. Due to lessons taught from well-meaning, yet broken key figures in our lives, we can be very resistant to allowing ourselves to connect to others. We have the additional challenge of managing our emotions. Our emotions lead us into the false spaces of not being safe. More times than not, our relationships are rooted in emotion and not in logic. This scares the bee gee bees out of us! It scares us because we control neither our feelings nor our emotions. This fear makes us unwilling to actively engaged within our relationships.
There are tribes of people who never TRULY learned how to be fully present and open within their relationships. My instinct says that you, too, are a member of this tribe. People will do ANYTHING to manage their relationships. This management can be anything from using substances (alcohol, prescriptions, street drugs, etc.), gambling, sexual encounters, work, school, religion, shopping, self-injury, stealing, lying, violence, and the list would go on and on. Some of our relationship challenges are simply a part of the human experience. Others were due to tragedies and traumas. Relationships left broken, disrupted, and strained can create emotions that develop into mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, OCD, substance dependence, and a host of other illnesses. I don’t want this for you. My agency has very active Facebook and Instagram pages to provide you tools, strategies, and community.
About Us
You deserve to live a life that falls outside of the generic scope of black and white. You are worthy of a life that is filled with color, spice and the beauty of emotion. Call us. Let’s work together so that you, too, can learn how to embrace your relationships. You deserve an opportunity to have the best that life has to offer. We can help. We care.
Our Values & Beliefs
Our Vision
Our vision is to empower men and women to move beyond emotional pain and into lives filled with love, joy, peace and abundance. By executing tools learned during our therapeutic engagement, men and women gain the skills that harness optimal mental wellness. With optimal mental wellness, better relationships are created. When better relationships are created, stronger families are developed. As stronger families are developed, greater communities are constructed.
Our Mission
By incorporating all aspects of being human (relationships, spiritual awareness and economic guidance), we will provide the necessary environment for you to accept, heal and grow.
Our Values
We are a customer-centric practice who values integrity, honesty and respect. We are against judgement, shame and guilt. We have a high value for operating in love with laughter and uncompromising civility.
Testimonials
“I highly recommend Shirley therapeutic…. When you walk in to the atmosphere I’m 100% guaranteed you will keep going back. My experience with the services is what got me where I am today…. So if you’re looking for therapeutic atmosphere and consultant this is the. Place that’s guaranteed to. Meet your consultation and therapy session“
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Kristy B.
Shirley is the best! I remember not wanting to go to therapy for years even though I knew I needed to. I always felt against it for many reasons. So when I finally decided that I was going to start therapy, I looked around at quite a few different places to see which would seem more fit for me. I am happy to say that I chose well with Shirley. I have been attending sessions with Shirley for about 9 months now and I feel that we have made great progress and I cannot wait to grow more. Thank you Shirley! And to whoever reads this, I hope things workout well for you.
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Summer D.
Mrs. Shirley is a talented therapist whose education and experience in her field is apparent from the moment you enter her office. She’s very patient and very approachable. Her office has a peaceful and relaxing feel. I would highly recommend her service.
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Joann W.
Stop waiting. Begin your journey toward healthier mental health.
I, Ronda Shirley, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and the rest of your therapists at Shirley Therapeutic and Consulting Services are based in Georgia, USA. We are always ready and flexible to meet your needs. We are dedicated to helping you work through any mental health issues that might be holding you back.
We also offer online counseling, so don’t be afraid to get in touch with us and make an appointment so we can find out how we can best help you the most on your journey to better mental health.
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