Shelove Andou , MD, LCSW-C, LICSW

Shelove Andou, MD, LCSW-C, LICSW, brings 25 years of clinical experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She focuses on women's issues, self-esteem, and family-related concerns. Her manner is warm and direct, helping clients name problems and find practical next steps.

She offers a space where people can talk about attachment wounds, abandonment, and communication struggles. Sessions address body image, guilt and shame, and the strain of caregiving. Shelove also helps those managing panic attacks, mood shifts, and feelings of isolation.

Therapy with her centers on understanding patterns that create pain and testing new ways of coping. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help clients reduce distress and make steady changes. The work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.

Shelove draws on medical and social work training to see problems from several angles. This background helps when depression or anxiety intersects with life events like divorce or major transitions. She speaks English and Haitian Creole and practices in Pennsylvania.

People who choose her often want practical tools as well as deeper emotional work. Sessions focus on clearer communication, stronger self-care, and rebuilding a sense of purpose. The goal is better day-to-day functioning and a clearer sense of personal direction.

Evidence-based approaches for online care

Two evidence-based techniques Shelove commonly uses are practical problem-focused work and emotion-focused exploration. Problem-focused work breaks concerns into manageable steps and teaches skills for anxiety, panic, and coping with life changes. Emotion-focused exploration helps identify recurring feelings like guilt, shame, or abandonment and develops new ways to respond to them.

She frames therapy as a team effort. Together the client and therapist will try an approach, check how it feels, and adjust based on goals and preferences. Finding the right method is part of the process and may change over time as needs shift.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video is useful for deeper conversational work, phone can fit a break at work or lower bandwidth, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping progress steady and consistent.