About Shelly
Shelly Mentus is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of practice. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and the fallout from trauma. Shelly meets clients with calm focus and clear goals.
Shelly works with individuals and couples to strengthen trust and communication. She emphasizes emotional connection and practical steps rather than abstract theory. Sessions aim to identify patterns and try small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Her style blends several approaches to match each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are taught when strong emotions need steadying.
Shelly also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to help people clarify values and deepen connection. The work can include skill practice, role-play, and focused conversations about what matters most. She has supported clients through addiction, grief, parenting strain, career stress, and problems with intimacy and codependency.
Shelly pays attention to life context and practical pressures when planning next steps. Outside of clinical work she enjoys travel, movies, bowling, and time with family and friends. She describes therapy as a partnership where the client’s goals guide what happens in sessions.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values. It can be useful for anxiety, life transitions, and feelings of emptiness by combining mindfulness with goal-focused action.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify patterns of thought that fuel anxiety and low mood, then tests different behaviors to change those patterns. It often involves short exercises and homework that are easy to do between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Shelly will collaborate with each client to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That plan can change over time as progress is reviewed.
Online sessions offer several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or skill practice between meetings. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and make it easier to keep momentum.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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