Shanel Manning, LMHC

Shanel Manning is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people find clearer footing during stressful and uncertain times. She focuses on practical goals and offers down-to-earth support for issues like anxiety, depression, self-esteem, parenting concerns, addiction, and trauma. Her approach centers on helping each person identify steps they can take now to feel a little better and move forward.

Shanel has ten years of experience as an LMHC and works with adults on a range of mood and behavior concerns. She uses straightforward, goal-focused methods and keeps conversations compassionate and direct. Sessions aim to break problems into manageable parts and build concrete tools for change.

Her practice blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance and commitment ideas and client-centered care. That mix helps people learn new thinking patterns, notice what matters to them, and practice choices that match their values. She also draws on solution-focused and trauma-informed ideas when those fit the situation.

Shanel often helps people dealing with family stress, parenting strain, attachment challenges, and life changes like pregnancy or postpartum difficulties. She also addresses panic attacks, bipolar and mood disorder concerns, grief, anger, and intimacy-related struggles. The work is practical and paced to each person’s needs.

Sessions are offered in English and take place with clients in Florida. The therapist emphasizes collaboration - clients set the goals and Shanel supports them in building skills and finding clarity along the way.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Shanel commonly draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance and commitment ideas to shape online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or panic. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and practice small actions that align with those values, often useful for stress, life changes, and mood concerns.

She also uses client-centered principles to keep sessions collaborative and paced to each person. Finding the right approach is part of the work together - the therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then shape sessions to match those needs in a practical way.

Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which adds flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video is well suited for fuller conversations and visual cues, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can work for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain regular progress with their goals.