About Shelley
Shelley Dodt uses mindfulness and practical tools to help people handle stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, and major life changes. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida with five years of clinical experience. Shelley keeps sessions straightforward and down to earth so worried parents can follow along easily.
Shelley combines mindfulness with skill-building. She helps people notice patterns that cause pain. Then she teaches simple coping skills to steer around those patterns.
How Shelley works
The goal is clearer thinking and more reliable daily functioning. Her work covers common struggles like low self-esteem, depression, sleep problems, grief, and stress from caregiving. She also supports people facing trauma, intimacy concerns, mood disorders, panic, and relationship problems.
Additional focus areas include attachment concerns, codependency, communication problems, and women's issues. Shelley uses practical approaches such as cognitive behavioral work to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She applies dialectical behavior ideas to manage intense emotions and mindfulness to reduce rumination.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies are part of her toolbox for setting realistic goals and making steady progress. Sessions are aimed at teaching usable skills and building on a person’s strengths. Shelley speaks plainly, adds warmth and a touch of humor, and helps people move from feeling stuck to taking manageable steps forward.
She seeks to be a steady partner while clients work toward clearer priorities and better daily routines.
Shelley lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Shelley works with
The areas below are the ones Shelley selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approach-focused online therapy with practical skills
Shelley often draws on cognitive behavioral methods to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change small behaviors that make life harder. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many day-to-day struggles because it targets the thinking and actions that keep problems going.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy ideas to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. DBT-informed strategies can be especially helpful when emotions feel overwhelming or when someone needs practical tools for handling crisis moments. Mindfulness therapy is woven into sessions to help reduce rumination and increase present-moment awareness.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shelley will work with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She aims to be a partner in deciding whether to emphasize CBT, DBT skills, mindfulness, or a mix of methods based on how someone responds.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can fit a lunch break, and messaging or live chat can support brief check-ins or homework help. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep progress moving forward.
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