About Shellene
Shellene Hattersley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and low self-esteem. She practices in Florida and draws on seven years of direct clinical experience. She aims to make sessions straightforward and focused on practical change.
She came into social services early in her career and has steadily built clinical experience since then. Shellene uses clear, goal-oriented methods to help people manage mood, cope with life changes, and improve communication.
Background and approach
Sessions are meant to be collaborative and paced to each person's comfort. Her approach centers on the person’s strengths. She combines Client-Centered ways of listening with tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice and shift unhelpful thinking.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Mindfulness strategies are used for emotional regulation and staying present when feelings run high. Shellene also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change and to set realistic steps forward. She works with adults on issues such as abandonment and attachment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, and forgiveness.
In sessions, she seeks clarity and small actionable steps. People can expect a calm, direct style that focuses on skills, communication, and rebuilding confidence. The goal is steady progress toward goals that matter to each person.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgment. Online sessions using this approach often involve reflective conversation and collaboratively set goals to help someone feel heard and make next-step plans.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. In online work this often looks like setting small practice exercises between sessions and reviewing what did or did not help.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. Online DBT can include focused skill coaching, mindfulness practice, and short check-ins to apply tools in daily life.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the person to identify goals, try strategies, and adjust methods as needed. This is a collaborative process that balances immediate coping skills with longer-term change.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between scheduled sessions or fit support into a busy day. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to maintain consistency with therapy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English