About Shantelle
Shantelle Wells is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, relationship struggles, and life transitions. She brings 18 years of experience and a calm presence to sessions. Her style is warm, down-to-earth, and focused on practical steps that fit everyday life.
She uses straightforward conversation and listening to learn what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and addressing patterns that get in the way of feeling steady.
Background and approach
Shantelle emphasizes small, manageable changes rather than sweeping promises. Her work draws from attachment-based ideas and cognitive-behavioral techniques to notice how past relationships and current thoughts shape reactions. She also uses client-centered and solution-focused strategies to keep goals clear and progress measurable.
These approaches are blended to match each person’s needs. Shantelle believes real change often starts with tolerating discomfort and trying new ways of responding. She encourages honest talk about shame, fear, and loss while gently challenging unhelpful thinking.
The goal is restored hope, better day-to-day functioning, and more reliable emotional balance. Practicing in Missouri with credentials as an LCPC and an LPC, she works with people facing parenting stress, career strain, compassion fatigue, panic attacks, and relationship breakdowns. Sessions aim to help people piece their lives back together step by step.
Approaches that guide online work and healing
Shantelle commonly uses attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques in online sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current trust, closeness, and conflict, which can help with abandonment concerns and relationship difficulty. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, panic attacks, and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level, adjusting techniques as progress is seen. Clients and therapist set clear, practical goals together and track small steps toward them.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when a visual check-in helps, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or busy schedules while focusing care on the issues that matter most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas
- Languages
- English
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