About Shenelle
Shenelle Hanley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina. She brings four years of clinical experience and a background in psychology to her work. Shenelle focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate major life changes.
She earned a Master of Arts in Psychology from the University of Arizona Global Campus and completed additional coursework in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at South University. Her academic path began with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Ashford University.
Background and approach
These studies inform practical strategies she uses in sessions. Shenelle works with adults to address grief, depression, impulse control and anger, and challenges with self-esteem and confidence. She also supports people facing trauma, addictions, intimacy-related concerns, sleeping problems, and parenting stress.
Her additional focus areas include multicultural concerns, communication problems, post-traumatic stress, and women's issues. Her style is straightforward and nonjudgmental. She aims to create a space where clients can talk about feelings without fear of being judged.
Shenelle uses client-centered conversations alongside techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing to help people identify small, achievable steps. Sessions tend to focus on clear goals, practical coping skills, and building momentum over time. Shenelle encourages collaboration - she and the client decide which approaches fit best.
Her aim is to help people find tools they can use between sessions to feel more capable and calm.
How Shenelle’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a respectful, listening relationship. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects feelings, and helps people make sense of their own goals. This approach is useful when someone needs a compassionate space to talk through anxiety, grief, or self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions include practical exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and develop new coping skills. CBT works well for stress, anxiety, sleeping problems, and low mood because it emphasizes concrete tools and short-term practice.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and build commitment to small steps. It uses guided questions and reflections to strengthen motivation, which can be helpful for addictions, impulse control, or making lifestyle changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will invite conversation about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they choose which methods to try and adjust them over time based on the person's needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share between sessions and fit support into busy days. These formats make it easier to keep momentum and practice new skills in real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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