Shelly Mentus, LMHC
Florida · 15 years in practice
Shelly Mentus is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LMHC, Florida
- MH23899 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1942738513 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
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About Shelly
Shelly Mentus is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and relationship or intimacy challenges. She aims to create a compassionate, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through what matters most to them.
She draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people name and shift unhelpful emotional patterns in close relationships. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered approaches to help clients notice values, build psychological flexibility, and feel heard in session.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques are used when practical skills or behavior changes are useful. Shelly often helps people dealing with family strain, caregiver stress, codependency, and communication problems. She also supports those working through trauma, grief, anger, body image concerns, and issues tied to substance use or recovery.
Conversations focus on clear goals and manageable steps clients can try between sessions. Her style is warm and direct. She encourages honest talk about feelings, patterns, and what gets in the way of the life someone wants.
Sessions pair emotional awareness with practical tools so clients leave with both insight and next steps. Outside of work she enjoys travel, movies, bowling, and time with family and friends. Prospective clients can expect a collaborative process that centers their goals and values.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Shelly lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Shelly names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How EFT and ACT can work in online sessions
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify core emotions and how those feelings shape interactions in close relationships. Online sessions can use this approach to notice emotional patterns, practice new responses, and strengthen connection through guided conversation.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. In remote sessions ACT skills can help with anxiety, stress, and motivation by using brief exercises and real-life behavioral experiments between meetings.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and supporting the client's own pace of change. That stance helps people feel heard and understood, which is useful whether sessions happen by video, phone, chat, or text.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Clients and therapist review progress and adjust the plan together as needed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and observation of nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit a lunch break or low-bandwidth situation. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, and when scheduling makes real-time sessions difficult.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she address?
Shelly helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, and career or life-purpose questions.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She combines emotional work with skills-based techniques. Sessions focus on naming feelings, improving communication, and practicing tools that reduce distress.
What is her professional background?
She has 15 years of clinical experience working with people facing mood, trauma, and relationship challenges.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She holds the credential LMHC, licensed in Florida, and practices with clients based in that state.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different communication preferences.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to get started?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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