About Shelly
Shelly Wilson is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience helping people in Florida. She focuses on steady, practical support and uses simple, clear language during sessions. Shelly meets people where they are and aims to make the first steps feel manageable.
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and parenting concerns. She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
How Shelly works
Additional focus areas include compassion fatigue, panic and a range of family and communication difficulties. Shelly favors approaches that emphasize values, present-moment awareness, and skill building. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters and take value-guided action.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps her clients spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Her style is warm and person-centered. Sessions are conversational and aim to build practical tools that fit daily life.
Shelly adapts plans to each person’s needs and checks in about what is or isn't working. People seeking help can expect straightforward guidance, skills practice, and space to talk about painful experiences. Shelly brings steady experience to the work and supports people as they find ways to feel more grounded and capable.
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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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name their core values and take small steps toward them while learning to notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions because it focuses on actions that matter more than perfect feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches practical skills to identify patterns of thinking and behavior, then replace them with more helpful options. It is often used for depression, panic, and problems with everyday coping.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and the therapist will work collaboratively to choose what fits best. Sessions begin with questions about goals and preferences, and the plan changes over time based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits brief check-ins, and messaging can support ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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