Shelly Harrell PhD

Licensed Psychologist specializing in multicultural and community psychology; A Professor with the Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology

Biography

Week 30 Video #3

Part 1 – The 3 Pillars of Resilience

Week 30 Video #4

Part 2 – 3 Resilience-Building Questions

Week 41 Video #3

The Power of Affirming Environments

Week 41 Video #4

How Cultural and Familial Messages Feed into Shame

Week 44 Video #1

What Lies Beneath Anger and Hostility?

Week 47 Video #2

Exploring the Unique Challenges of Working with Hostility

Week 49 Video #4

Reducing a Client’s Rage Through Forgiveness Work

Week 53 Video #3

Empowering Clients to Live Intentionally in an Uncertain World

Week 55 Video #3

Humility: A Practitioner’s Most Effective Tool

Week 60 Video #4

What Happens When You Normalize a Client’s Ambivalence?

Week 62 Video #4

How to Work with the Subversive Effect of Social Stereotypes

Week 64 Video #2

How Identifying Values Can Help Clients Disconnect from External Comparisons

Week 71 Video #3

“Meaning” is the Compass That Points Toward Growth

Week 74 Video #2

4 Strategies to Break the Barriers of Anxiety

Week 78 Video #2

An Application of FACT (Foundational Attention Centering Techniques)

Week 80 Video #2

How to Find the Right Strategy for the Right Client

Week 92 Video #1

What to Focus on to Get Past Blame

Week 98 Video #3

How to Reverse the Vicious Spiral of Depression

Week 100 Video #3

Working with Depression Fueled by Stereotypes and Discrimination

Week 102 Video #2

Strategies for Activating a Client’s Support System

Week 104 Video #2

How to Help Clients “Turn Down the Volume” On Their Inner Critic

Week 112 Video #2

How to Build a Relationship that Respects Cultural Dynamics

Week 114 Video #1

How to Acknowledge and Reconcile Different Perspectives

Week 123 Video #2

How to Help a Fault-Finding Client Reframe Their Focus

Week 125 Video #2

One Strategy for Disarming a Client’s Defenses

Week 126 Video #1

One Strategy for Getting Beneath an Emotional Trigger

Week 129 Video #4

Working with the Emotional Triggers in Stereotyping

Week 132 Video #2

How to Work with Emotional Numbness

Week 133 Video #1

When Strong Emotions Get Tied to Abandonment

Week 138 Video #2

One Common Thinking Style Beneath a Need to be Perfect

Week 143 Video #4

Two Specific Ways Perfectionism Can Often Play Out

Week 144 Video #1

Working with the Protective Nature of Avoidance

Week 150 – How to Work with Clients Whose Self-Narrative Sustains Their Suffering

Week 160 – Working with the Unique Challenges of Impostor Syndrome

Week 167 – Practical Resources for Helping Clients Manage a Fear of Rejection

Week 172 – How to Help Clients Connect to Meaning, Purpose, and Values

Week 180 – Why It’s Crucial to Help Clients Learn to Tolerate Distress

Week 181 – Normalization and Psychoeducation – Two Important Tools for Helping Clients Learn to Tolerate Distress

Week 182 – Strategies for Helping Clients Regulate Their Emotions

Week 186 – Investigating the Roots of Shame

Week 209 – The Complicated Issue of Forgiveness

Week 210 – Conceptualizing the Please and Appease Dynamic

Week 211 – Cultural Considerations for Working with Please and Appease

Week 216 – The All-Encompassing Issue of Rigidity

Week 220 – Specific Presentations of Rigidity

Week 222 – Trust Examined

Week 227 – The Role Racial and Cultural Issue Play in Developing Trust

Week 228 – What Feeds Despair

Week 234 – Exploring the Factors That Contribute to Uncertainty

Week 239 – Clinical Illustrations of Working with Uncertainty

Week 240 – Why a Sense of Belonging Is So Crucial for Well-Being (and How to Help Clients Understand Its Impact)

Week 241 – Specific Threats to Your Client’s Sense of Belonging

Week 253 – Strategies for Helping Clients Open Up to the Idea of Addressing Their Shadow Side

Week 259—Strategies to Transform a Client’s Belief That They’re Unworthy of Love

Week 269 – Addressing a Client’s Experience of Not Fitting In with Their Family or Culture