About Shanelle
Shanelle Slade is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She uses practical, goal-focused work to help people manage stress and anxiety. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental and she aims to make sessions straightforward and useful.
Shanelle draws on six years of professional experience that include direct therapy and prior work as an insurance case manager. She has supported people dealing with mood and anxiety concerns as well as substance-use challenges.
Background and approach
She also has experience addressing relationship strain, trauma, grief, and issues around identity and intimacy. In sessions she mixes techniques that help people notice and shift unhelpful thoughts with approaches that focus on values and meaningful action. She also uses client-centered listening so people feel heard before moving into practical steps.
That blend is meant to make progress feel manageable and relevant to daily life. Shanelle works with people facing career stress, sleep disruption, anger, and life transitions, and she offers additional experience with first responder stress, HIV/AIDS related concerns, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and non-monogamous relationship dynamics. She includes strategies to improve coping and self-esteem alongside concrete tools for behavior change.
Her approach focuses on clear goals, collaborative planning, and steady skill-building. Sessions are designed so people leave with things to try between meetings and a sense of what the next steps will be.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Shanelle uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and take small, value-driven steps toward those goals. That approach is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes because it focuses on action rather than trying to eliminate difficult thoughts.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to shift patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood concerns. Client-centered therapy is part of her work too, which means sessions start with open, empathetic listening so a person feels understood before moving into strategies.
Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before recommending which approaches to emphasize. That collaboration makes it easier to adjust methods as needs change over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work on these approaches. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and emotional processing. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a lighter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share brief updates, try exercises, or get quick support between sessions. Together, these formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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