Shellene Hattersley , LCSW

Shellene Hattersley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings seven years of clinical experience to her practice in Florida. She focuses on issues like stress, anxiety, relationships, self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people find practical ways forward.

Shellene uses a client-centered approach that keeps the person's goals first. She pairs that with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thinking and behavior. Mindfulness and dialectical behavior therapy skills are woven in to help manage strong emotions and improve day-to-day coping.

Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Shellene helps people spot patterns that get in the way and then practices new skills together in session. She also supports work on body image, attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiver stress, communication problems, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, and finding life purpose.

Her background includes work in community mental health settings and private practice experience. Shellene brings a strengths-based perspective, noticing what already works for a person and building from there. She adapts approaches to fit each person's pace and needs.

People meet her for help with mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, narcissism-related dynamics, seasonal affective disorder, and issues common to veterans and armed forces communities. She offers sessions in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexibility.

Therapeutic approaches for online care

Shellene commonly blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy skills in online sessions. Client-centered therapy means conversations focus on the person’s goals and values, with the therapist following the client’s lead to build trust and clarity. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying out different behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical behavior therapy adds concrete emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills to help manage intense feelings and improve interpersonal communication.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made or needs change.

Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video is useful for full face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or for short check-ins, and messaging or live chat lets people send notes or updates between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep consistent momentum toward their goals.