Hey Ryan,
Thanks for reaching out.
There is unfortunately nothing from within our own plugins that would make the Layer Slider plugin handle our own shortcodes any differently, but you may find some success by reaching out to the Layer Slider plugin support folks and asking about how to ensure that shortcodes are enabled in the Layer Slider plugin.
Depending on how the Layer Slider plugin is made, it may only take a bit of custom coding to make sure that it parses shortcodes via WordPress’ do_shortcode() filter.
Feel free to share this forum post with them, for reference.
I’m sorry that I wasn’t able to provide much insight here myself, but I hope you have success with the Layer Slider team!
Cheers,
George