About Shellene
Shellene Hattersley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, self-esteem concerns, and life transitions. Shellene aims to create a calm, practical space where clients can talk through what feels overwhelming and learn tools that fit their day-to-day life.
She takes a straightforward, person-centered approach that looks at strengths first. Sessions often focus on realistic steps and changes a person can try between meetings.
How Shellene works
Shellene combines practical techniques from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior methods with mindfulness and motivational interviewing to address thinking patterns and emotion regulation. Her background includes work in community mental health and independent practice settings. That experience informs how she helps people facing issues such as attachment wounds, abandonment fears, body image struggles, caregiver stress, and communication problems.
She also addresses challenges related to divorce and separation, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose. Shellene works with mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, seasonal affective disorder, and concerns connected to narcissism or veterans and armed forces issues. Sessions aim to reduce intense emotions and build manageable coping skills.
The focus is on collaboration and practical progress tailored to each person's goals. People who choose Shellene can expect clear goals, step-by-step tools, and a respectful, nonjudgmental tone. She helps clients practice new skills, test small changes, and track what is working over time.
Shellene lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Shellene works with
The areas below are the ones Shellene selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's goals and values, with the therapist listening deeply and adapting sessions to the individual's pace. This approach helps when someone needs understanding and a plan that fits their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and depression. CBT works well for people who want clear tools to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication; it can be helpful for managing intense feelings and improving relationships.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist and client decide together which methods to try based on goals and what feels useful. Sessions are collaborative and may shift over time as needs change and progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and role‑playing skills. Phone sessions can fit into busy schedules or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to have shorter check-ins, share thoughts between meetings, or access support when writing helps. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life while using approaches like CBT, DBT, and client-centered work to move toward practical goals.
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