About Shelly
Shelly Mentus is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 15 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, and major life changes. Shelly combines practical tools and steady support to help clients move forward.
Shelly focuses on building trust and clearer communication. She helps people address intimacy concerns, anger, grief, parenting stress, and career questions. Her work also covers body image, codependency, family-of-origin issues, and substance use concerns.
How Shelly works
She draws on several approaches to match each person’s needs, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and client-centered work. Sessions often include skill practice, values-based planning, and talking through difficult feelings. Shelly aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can explore what matters to them.
She also supports those coping with compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Her approach mixes practical strategies with attention to emotions and relationships. Clients can expect a straightforward, collaborative process that focuses on clear goals and small steps.
Shelly offers sessions that fit into busy lives and helps people try new ways of relating to themselves and others.
Shelly lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Shelly works with
The areas below are the ones Shelly selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, addiction, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that cause distress and practicing concrete skills to change them; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on the emotional experiences in relationships and helps people build stronger emotional bonds and repair hurt in close relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will pick approaches or mix methods that fit the person’s needs and pace.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while maintaining regular progress with a licensed professional.
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