Consuella Shaw, LMHC

Consuella Shaw is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 18 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and anger. Her work also addresses relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, ADHD, intellectual disability, and self-harm.

She describes therapy as a collaborative process where the client is viewed as the expert on their own life. Sessions aim to build on existing strengths and teach practical skills for daily challenges. Consuella listens first, then helps people try new ways of coping that fit their routine.

Her style blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with client-centered listening and techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Motivational Interviewing. That combination is used to identify unhelpful thoughts, practice new coping skills, and stay motivated to change. The Gottman Method informs how she approaches relationship patterns and communication.

Consuella works with people at different points in their journey. She helps set small, achievable goals and checks progress along the way. Many sessions focus on concrete strategies - thought records, behavior experiments, emotion regulation skills, and practical problem solving.

Her goal is to make therapy feel useful and manageable. She aims to empower people so they can handle stressors with more confidence and fewer setbacks.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Consuella uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this often involves short exercises, thought records, and behavior experiments that fit into daily life. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building a trusting relationship, so sessions focus on understanding each person's story and priorities. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) contributes practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving emotional regulation, such as breathing, grounding, and interpersonal effectiveness techniques.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to goals and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is tracked. That collaboration helps keep sessions relevant and focused on what the client wants to change.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when visual cues matter, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter conversation is needed, and chat or messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, school, and caregiving responsibilities while keeping treatment consistent over time.