Shelly Mentus

Shelly Mentus is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of clinical experience. She guides people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and career questions. Her style is direct and warm, and she aims to help clients find clearer thinking and healthier patterns.

Shelly works with individuals and couples to strengthen communication and rebuild trust. She pays attention to feelings and real-life interaction, helping clients spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Sessions focus on practical steps that can be practiced between meetings.

Her background includes long-term work with trauma, grief, addictions, and family-of-origin concerns. Shelly also supports people dealing with parenting strain, caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, and issues around intimacy and boundaries. She brings experience with both mood and relationship challenges.

She uses a mix of therapy methods aimed at changing thinking, increasing emotional awareness, and building skills for difficult moments. Clients can expect straightforward tools and time to reflect on values and goals. Shelly combines problem-solving with attention to deeper emotional patterns.

A person-centered tone guides the work, and Shelly aims to meet each person where they are. Outside of practice she enjoys travel, movies, bowling, and time with family and friends. The goal is steady, realistic progress toward a life that feels more manageable and meaningful.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps toward those values while learning to tolerate difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thinking and teaches practical skills to change behavior and mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and change patterns in close relationships by identifying emotions and rebuilding emotional connection.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying one approach for a while, then adjusting as progress and priorities become clearer.

Confirm the current online session options before booking, since session formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten commute time, and allow follow-up sessions between in-person visits when appropriate. It also supports consistent check-ins for relationship work and skill practice without needing to rearrange a full day.