Specialized

I only see couples. My entire practice is reflective of my passion to help intimate relationships grow closer and learn how to love each other better. I utilize only evidenced-based treatment modalities shown to be the most effective for couples.

Certified & Awarded

I am a certified Gottman therapist and workshop presenter. I am trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). I am honored to have been awarded as a finalist in the 2019 Wake Weekly Best of Best Counselors as well as the 2020 North Carolina Marriage and Family Therapy Association David and Vera Mace Award for significant contribution in marriage and family therapy.

Experienced

I have been working with couples just like you for over 20 years. Because of my clinical focus, I am grateful to the hundreds of couples that have graciously allowed me into their lives.

Stay Happily Married Interview on Conflict in Relationships

with Shelly Hummel, LMFT

weekly Couples/marriage counseling

People are often confused as to when to seek out couples therapy versus individual therapy.  Here is a real easy formula: if you are having problems in your relationship, couples therapy is the best choice. It only takes one person in the relationship to feel like there is a problem.  If it’s a problem for one, it’s a problem for both.  Individual therapy does not provide the necessary platform to dissect each partner’s contribution to the dynamic that the two of you have created.  

accelerated therapy (1-3 day private retreats)

Couples accelerated therapy is 1, 2 or 3 days of consecutive therapy for your relationship. Research has shown that couples in distress respond best to this longer method of treatment. Have you ever been in therapy before and felt like you were just getting started when the therapist said, “time is up”? That can be incredibly frustrating. It seems like it takes forever before change in implemented. Couples Intensives (or accelerated therapy) alleviates this by allotting the necessary time to see all aspects of the issue while providing real direction to getting the relationship back on track.

Couples weekend retreats

Discover The Art and Science of Love at our world-renowned weekend workshop for couples presented by Shelly Hummel and her Colleague, Carole C. Cullen, in select North Carolina Cities. Based on over 40 years of research with thousands of couples, The Art and Science of Love workshop will give you new insights and research-based skills that can dramatically improve the intimacy and friendship in your relationship and help you manage conflict in a healthy, positive way.

Gottman Relationship Check-up

Automated Scoring ~ Detailed Feedback ~ Recommended Treatment Plan

RESEARCH-BASED

Developed from over 40 years of scientific research by Dr. John Gottman, this relationship assessment tool relies on intensive, detailed, and evidence-based information on why relationships succeed or fail.

IN-DEPTH

Fully HIPAA compliant, the questionnaire consists of 480 questions about friendship, intimacy, emotions, conflict, values, and trust, as well as parenting, housework, finances, individual areas of concern, and more.