About Shanelle
Shanelle Slade is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who uses straightforward, goal-focused methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, mood challenges, and relationship concerns. She practices from New York and brings six years of clinical experience to sessions. She speaks English and works with clients internationally through online formats.
Shanelle combines practical techniques with an empathetic, nonjudgmental presence. Sessions focus on what matters to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
She helps clients set clear goals, build coping skills, and practice small changes between meetings. Her approach blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered care. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, practice new habits, and stay focused on values.
She also uses motivational interviewing to support change and emotionally-focused ideas to look at relationship patterns. Shanelle has supported people facing depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem struggles. She also works on concerns around parenting, career changes, intimacy, and non-monogamous relationship dynamics.
Additional experience includes first responder issues, HIV/AIDS, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and addiction challenges. Sessions are practical and solution-minded. New clients are invited to describe their priorities and work at a pace that fits them.
Shanelle aims to guide people toward clearer choices and more manageable day-to-day living.
Approach-driven care available online
Shanelle uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify their values and take small, meaningful steps toward what matters. ACT encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and then acting in ways that reflect personal goals.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thinking that feed distress and to practice new, more helpful behaviors. CBT works well for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and day-to-day coping. In sessions she uses client-centered listening to shape the work around each person's priorities and pace.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That teamwork makes it easier to find practical steps and measure progress over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins or ongoing written support. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English