About Shonda
Shonda Hart-Wright is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, mood struggles, and big life changes. She speaks plainly and offers steady support so a worried parent can understand next steps and feel less alone. Shonda draws on two decades of experience working in a range of clinical settings.
She uses practical, reality-based approaches alongside cognitive methods to help people identify what’s not working and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be direct but warm, with the client’s goals guiding the work. She often helps people dealing with relationship and family tensions, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and challenges like ADHD or bipolar mood shifts. Shonda also addresses issues such as communication problems, caregiver stress, and feeling stuck in a midlife or career transition.
Her work includes both short-term problem solving and longer-term coping strategies. In therapy she leans toward client-centered listening, then introduces skills from acceptance-based and cognitive approaches when they fit. Expect straightforward talk about patterns, some skill building, and collaborative planning for next steps.
Shonda emphasizes dignity and respect for each person she meets. People who want direct guidance paired with empathy may find her style helpful. She offers sessions in English and provides care to people in Florida and internationally.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Shonda commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then take action that aligns with their values to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors so daily life becomes more manageable.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your concerns, discuss different methods, and collaboratively choose what fits your needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can change over time as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and skill teaching, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, short chats or texts are handy for quick check-ins, and messaging can fit into a busy schedule. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing school, work, and family life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English