About Shanda
Shanda Hope is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with 26 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, anger, and issues with self-esteem and confidence. Shanda works with individuals facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, bipolar disorder, and attention concerns such as ADHD.
Sessions are offered in English and tailored to each person's needs. Shanda favors a practical, down-to-earth style. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and builds on the strengths they already have.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on clear goals, small steps, and tools people can use between sessions. She aims to make therapy feel achievable and relevant to day-to-day life. Her clinical approach draws from several evidence-informed methods.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports values-based action when emotions feel overwhelming.
Shanda also uses client-centered principles to create a respectful, listening-focused space. For relationship concerns she incorporates elements of the Gottman Method to improve communication and problem-solving. Over decades of practice she has worked with a wide range of mood and personality concerns.
Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. The subscription model for sessions can be canceled at any time and scheduling follows the therapist's availability. To get started, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule an appointment.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety and mood work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes values and small actions that move a person toward a life they care about and is useful when anxiety or mood get in the way of what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms. It is practical for anxiety, depression, and many everyday struggles. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling conflict more calmly.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they choose methods and adapt them over time so the plan matches progress and changing needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let people share between sessions and get regular support without scheduling a full video meeting.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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