Shellene Hattersley, LCSW

Shellene Hattersley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Florida with seven years of direct practice experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. She works with adults who want practical ways to manage emotions and move forward.

Before becoming an LCSW, she spent years in social services and community mental health settings. That background shaped how she structures sessions: clear goals, concrete skills, and time to reflect on progress. Shellene draws on approaches like client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to guide sessions.

In a typical meeting she helps people identify unhelpful patterns and try specific steps to change them. Conversations often include skill practice, behavior experiments, and brief reflections about how new habits are going. She pays attention to attachment and abandonment concerns when they affect current relationships.

Shellene also addresses issues related to body image, caregiver stress, communication problems, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose. She has experience with mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, narcissism dynamics, and seasonal affective disorder. Her work often includes short-term problem solving and longer-term skills building.

Sessions are straightforward and focused on what helps in day-to-day life. People leave with specific strategies to try between appointments and a plan for tracking progress. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session.

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