About Shelly
Shelly Mentus is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 15 years of clinical experience. She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, and issues related to addiction. Shelly works with individuals and couples to improve communication and rebuild trust in relationships.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through painful experiences. Shelly draws on practical tools to reduce negative thinking and manage strong emotions.
Background and approach
She emphasizes clear, doable steps clients can try between sessions. Shelly uses several approaches to shape sessions, choosing what fits each person's needs. She may include cognitive strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and skills for handling intense feelings.
Therapy can also focus on values and building a life that feels meaningful. She often addresses family of origin issues, codependency, and patterns that show up in close relationships. Work may cover topics such as forgiveness, intimacy problems, or the impact of trauma and abuse.
Shelly also supports people facing career stress, caregiver strain, or questions about life purpose. Sessions balance practical coaching with emotional work. Shelly helps clients set clear goals and test new behaviors in everyday life.
Her style is straightforward, compassionate, and focused on achievable change.
How Shelly’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values. It’s useful for coping with anxiety, depression, and life changes by teaching simple actions that align with personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to change feelings. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by giving concrete skills to use day to day. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, looks at patterns in close relationships and helps partners strengthen emotional bonds and safety.Choosing the right method is part of the work and a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which approaches to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist see nonverbal cues and use visual tools during sessions. Phone sessions can be a better fit when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support shorter coaching moments, skill reminders, or ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English