About Consuella
Consuella Shaw is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 18 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping clients take practical steps forward.
Shaw believes people know their own story and brings a respectful, listening-first approach. She helps clients build on their strengths and develop tools to handle difficult moments. Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of evidence-informed methods, including client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. Those tools are used to reduce distress, change unhelpful patterns, and improve day-to-day coping. Shaw also incorporates relationship-focused ideas when relevant to communication and conflict.
Parents and individuals often come for help with parenting strain, family conflict, or concerns about attention and mood. She also supports people managing self-harm thoughts and intellectual disability concerns by tailoring strategies to fit where someone is right now. Her sessions are practical and rooted in real-life change.
Expect clear goals, straightforward homework when helpful, and a focus on what works for your life. The aim is steady progress you can notice between meetings.
How her approaches work in online sessions
Consuella Shaw draws on client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and building a trusting relationship so clients can name what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns.She may also use elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance. Together these approaches aim to give tools for anxiety, mood challenges, and relationship strain while keeping sessions focused on each person’s goals. Choosing an approach is collaborative - the therapist and client try methods, discuss what helps, and adjust the plan as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, skill reminders, or ongoing conversational work between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intellectual disability
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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