Shelly's World

Shelly Harris, MFT, Trainee

Shelly Harris is a Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee who is currently working on her Practicum hours with North County Lifeline’s Educationally Related Mental Health Services (ERMHS) department. 

In her work with families, Shelly provides parent counseling and support, community resources and advocacy. Shelly works with the ERHMS Clinicians to identify interventions they have used with the client and facilitate in home success of those learned skills.
 
In her role as a Student Support Specialist, Shelly also runs adolescent group session focusing on building social skills. In those groups Shelly incorporates Motivational Interviewing, self-esteem building, and social skills development in a fun and inviting environment. Shelly has brought her passion and expertise to the position of a Student Support Specialist, providing prevention, psycho-education and intervention support services to students and their families in Special Education. 

Shelly has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from U.C. Berkeley and is completing her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology at National University in 2015. As a Trainee with Lifeline, Shelly is sharpening her skills in providing evidence-based practices. Shelly incorporates several techniques when working with families to support the success of their students in special education. Shelly comes from a background in Human Resources where she provided employee relations support for large corporations. That experience has proved valuable in her current role. 

Thank you, Shelly, for your service to kids and families!

The Principal is at our Door!

When the principal shows up at your front door, is it good or bad? In this case, it was a wonderful surprise for a family working with Lifeline’s behavioral health team. We’ll let Grandma tell the story:

“My grandson has been struggling with going to school for years now, constantly arguing with teachers and getting in fights. We met the Lifeline counselors a few months ago and they have helped me with finding resources for food, daycare for my younger grandson, and helping to organize legal documents. They helped us set up a tour of my grandson’s new school and went on the tour with us to help ease him into his school setting. Since we began working with the counselors from Lifeline, my grandson has been attending school on a more regular basis and is getting along with his teachers and classmates. His principal even came over to our house to let us know how well he has been doing! For the first time in a long time he is beginning to see himself as successful.”

We are proud of the hundreds of kids working through mental health challenges on their path to success!