About Shayla
Shayla Finnissee uses a practical, person-centered approach to help people make real changes in their lives. She is a licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - based in Florida with ten years of experience. Shayla listens first, then works with each person to set clear, manageable goals for therapy.
She draws on cognitive behavioral methods to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and test new ways of responding. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques are used to help clients clarify values and take small steps toward a meaningful life.
Background and approach
Emotionally-Focused and Attachment-Based ideas guide work on closeness, trust, and repairing hurt in relationships. Shayla has supported people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and struggles with addiction. She also helps with intimacy-related issues, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and major life changes.
Communication problems, guilt and shame, loneliness, and questions about life purpose are among other topics she addresses. In sessions she keeps language simple and practical. Conversations focus on what to try between meetings, skills that fit into daily life, and ways to measure progress.
She aims to create a calm space where people feel respected and understood while making steady steps forward. Therapy is collaborative and paced to the individual's needs. Shayla tailors each plan, combining evidence-informed techniques with a warm, straightforward style to help people move toward clearer values and better day-to-day functioning.
Approaches that guide online work
Shayla commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide online sessions. ACT helps people identify what matters most and take action toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.She also integrates Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused ideas when relationships or closeness are central concerns. These approaches concentrate on how patterns of connection form and how to rebuild trust and emotional safety in important relationships. Together, these methods target both internal experience and interpersonal patterns so the work can address mood, anxiety, intimacy, and communication problems.
Finding the best approach is a shared process. Shayla will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. From there she recommends a plan and adjusts it over time so sessions stay practical and relevant to real life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation across distance, phone sessions can fit a break during the day or require less bandwidth, and chat or text options work well for brief check-ins, journaling, or people who prefer nonverbal formats. These options make it easier to keep momentum and use therapy in ways that match everyday schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English