About Shirley
Shirley St Juste uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and big life changes. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, practicing in Florida with 19 years of experience. Shirley speaks English and Haitian Creole and offers straightforward support for everyday problems.
She focuses on helping clients improve concentration, memory, and executive functioning through coaching-style work when helpful. Conversations are direct and focused on real goals like coping with change, reducing worry, or building routines that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be an honest space for sharing thoughts and feelings without judgment. Shirley also addresses issues that often sit beneath symptoms, such as attachment concerns, family of origin and blended family difficulties, and problems with communication and control. She has worked with people facing caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and the strain that follows divorce or separation.
First responder stress, immigration issues, guilt, and forgiveness are additional focus areas. Her approach is practical and collaborative. Shirley helps clients set small steps they can try between sessions and checks what is and isn’t working.
She emphasizes skills that can be used right away to reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day functioning. For people who prefer language options, sessions can be held in Haitian Creole as well as English. Shirley offers a mix of session formats so clients can choose what fits their schedule and needs.
Approaches that fit real life and work well online
Shirley uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical problem solving and skill building. One common approach is coaching-style work that helps improve concentration, memory, and executive functioning by breaking tasks into manageable steps and building routines. This is useful for people coping with ADHD-related focus problems or work-related overwhelm.Another frequent element is short-term skills training for anxiety and depression, which teaches simple coping tools such as breathing, behavioral activation, and planning small achievable activities. These strategies aim to reduce worry and lift mood by changing daily habits and responses.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shirley works with each person to identify goals, tries techniques, and adjusts plans based on what helps. Clients take an active role in deciding which methods fit their needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible options. Video is useful when visual connection helps the work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and maintain momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Haitian Creole