Jerri Shields, LPC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has been serving the Scottsdale, AZ, community for over 40 years. With a Master's Degree in Clinical & Community Counseling, Jerri has been working in private practice since 2004 and is dedicated to helping individuals increase their self-awareness and personal strengths. She provides a confidential, comfortable, and emotionally safe environment, working with clients to discover the path to healthy relationships and positive interactions with others.

Jerri is a member of the American Counseling Association, American Christian Counseling Association, and the National Board of Counselors. She served on the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners (AZBBHE) as its Chairman from 2014-2016 and 2017 -2018 and was also a member of the Counseling Credentialing Committee, Rules Committee, and Personnel Sub-committee. Jerri believes that a therapist should be well-educated and familiar with various techniques, theories, and modalities to provide the best treatment for complex client needs.

Jerri specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT), Brainspotting, and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). She also facilitates workshops and trainings for groups and organizations in areas such as depression, anger, assertiveness, anxiety, effective communication, marriage/divorce, and parenting. Jerri's private practice is complemented by her volunteer work at Scottsdale Bible Church, where she provides counseling services to individuals and couples.

Therapy Services

Jerri's clinical counseling practice focuses on individual, adolescent, and couples therapy. She specializes in addressing adolescent and adult anger, anxiety, depression, and relationship issues, including marital issues and generational concerns that center on communication and connection or reconnection. Jerri's approach to therapy involves collaboration, empathy, and positive regard, ensuring a direct, self-empowering, solution-focused process.

Jerri's therapeutic style is strength-based and compassionate, using strong clinical skills to create an emotionally safe, open, and comfortable environment for clients to explore concerns and challenges. By providing direction, clarity, focus, and motivation for change, Jerri assists clients in understanding and accessing their internal strengths, capabilities, and gifts, ultimately empowering them to deal with current and past issues and challenges.

Jerri has experience working with most age groups and diverse backgrounds and is committed to helping clients navigate their unique struggles. She understands that everyone experiences difficulties in their own way and that we all have internal strengths, capabilities, and gifts. At times, we may need help accessing them to deal with current challenges. Jerri looks forward to working with you in a warm, emotionally safe, confidential environment.