About Shelana
Shelana Carneal is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on depression, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, and self-esteem. Shelana frames work around each person's story and helps clients build practical skills to move forward.
She draws on somatic integration and processing to pay attention to how the body and mind interact. Sessions often include noticing physical sensations alongside thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
This can help when anxiety or past trauma show up as tightness, startle responses, or persistent unease. Shelana views clients as the experts on their own lives and treats therapy as a collaborative effort. Together she and the client identify goals and small, achievable steps.
That might include new ways to cope with stress, communication strategies for relationships, or grounding practices for moments of overwhelm. Her counseling style is practical and down-to-earth. Shelana aims to make techniques easy to use between sessions so progress carries into daily life.
She encourages steady changes rather than rushed fixes. With three years of experience, Shelana practices in Missouri and conducts sessions in English. People coming to see her can expect straightforward guidance, attention to bodily experience, and support in building coping skills over time.
How somatic approaches pair with online therapy
Shelana uses somatic integration and processing to notice how feelings appear in the body and to link those sensations with thoughts and memories. Those techniques help when anxiety shows up as tightness, shallow breathing, or restlessness and guide simple in-the-moment grounding practices.She also emphasizes skill building that can be practiced between sessions, such as breathing exercises, simple body scans, and short behavioral experiments to reduce stress. These practical tools help people manage symptoms and try out new ways of responding to triggers.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and daily life. Sessions begin with clear goals and adjust as progress is made so the plan stays useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is often used for fuller conversations and guided body-based exercises. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, and when a written record of strategies is helpful. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work consistently over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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