About Shenelle
Shenelle Hanley is a licensed professional counselor practicing in South Carolina. She holds a Master of Arts in Psychology and has four years of clinical experience. Shenelle focuses on practical, everyday concerns and keeps sessions straightforward and goal-oriented.
She creates a calm space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and challenges with impulse control or anger. Shenelle also addresses self-esteem, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep problems, and substance-related issues.
Background and approach
Her approach is warm and nonjudgmental, with attention to what a person wants to change now. Shenelle uses techniques from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral methods, and motivational interviewing. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking and try small, doable changes.
Conversations are collaborative and build toward clearer goals and practical steps. Her background includes graduate study in psychology and additional clinical mental health counseling coursework. Over four years she has supported people across a range of life disruptions including trauma, grief, and major mood shifts.
She also brings attention to multicultural concerns and women's issues when relevant. Sessions tend to focus on concrete tools - short-term coping skills, behavior experiments, and ways to handle difficult emotions. Shenelle aims to help clients find more steady routines, improve communication patterns, and build self-compassion.
The work moves at a pace the client feels comfortable with.
How Shenelle’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's perspective. The therapist reflects feelings and priorities so clients feel heard and can decide what changes matter most; this approach helps with trust and emotional clarity.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. Sessions use practical exercises and small behavior experiments to reduce anxiety, shift low moods, and improve sleep and routines.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change. It uses guided conversation to strengthen motivation and set personally meaningful goals, which can be useful for addictions, impulse concerns, or making lifestyle shifts.
Finding the best approach is a joint process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try a few methods, and adapt based on what works. Together you set priorities, test strategies, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you work face-to-face from wherever you are. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, journaling-style updates, or follow-up between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or a busy family schedule.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English