About Shelley
Shelley Dodt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She uses practical skills and down-to-earth conversation to help people notice patterns and try small changes. Her approach feels straightforward and supportive for someone who wants concrete tools and relief.
Shelley emphasizes mindfulness and simple coping strategies. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and practice new responses.
Background and approach
Sessions often include short skills practice and real-life examples rather than long lectures. She also weaves in motivational interviewing to help people set goals they actually want to pursue. For relationship concerns she uses the Gottman Method to focus on communication and problem-solving.
The work is collaborative: the therapist and client choose steps together. Shelley has five years of clinical experience and practices in Florida. She helps with a wide range of concerns including self-esteem, grief, career stress, trauma and abuse, panic attacks, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment struggles, and mood disorders. Her style is warm and human. She aims to teach coping skills, strengthen strengths, and add a bit of humor where it helps.
People who want practical tools and steady support may find her approach useful.
Practical approaches for online therapy and coping skills
Shelley uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to help clients spot thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety and stress. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new ways of behaving, which can help with panic, worry, and mood problems. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm in everyday moments.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotional regulation or intense reactions are a concern. DBT skills offer concrete tools for tolerating distress, improving relationships, and managing strong emotions. Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process; Shelley works with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences rather than using one fixed plan.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still practicing the skills taught in sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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