Shelly Mentus, LMHC

Shelly Mentus is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship problems, and parenting challenges. Shelly works with both individuals and couples to strengthen communication and rebuild trust in relationships.

She offers a caring, nonjudgmental approach and integrates several therapeutic methods to meet each person's needs. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings to reduce negative thinking and build healthier routines. Her work also covers grief, self-esteem, career concerns, and addiction-related issues.

Shelly draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion-focused methods to address emotional patterns and interactional problems. She also incorporates acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take meaningful action when life feels stuck.

Her practice pays attention to family of origin issues, codependency, communication problems, caregiver stress, and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, body image, guilt and shame, and forgiveness work.

Outside of therapy Shelly enjoys travel, movies, bowling, and time with family and friends. She aims to meet people where they are and help them move toward clearer goals and more satisfying relationships.

How therapy approaches shape online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify what matters to them, and take small steps toward those values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and feeling stuck when life changes feel overwhelming.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought patterns and testing them against reality. CBT gives straightforward tools for managing anxiety, anger, and low mood through changes in thinking and behavior.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at how emotions and attachment needs show up in relationships. It helps partners and individuals improve emotional connection and express needs more clearly.

Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past, then recommend methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses.

Confirm the current online session options before booking, as formats are not detailed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and cut travel time so people can schedule appointments around work or caregiving. Licensed professionals can tailor exercises and homework to remote sessions so those skills carry over into daily routines.