Mental Health Counseling with Shania!

Teaches practical skills in four key areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. The aim is to help you accept yourself while simultaneously working to make changes for a more balanced life. 

Utilizing the process of thoughts to help one understand their actions and behaviors. This approach helps individuals to  have deeper understanding of themselves while helping them to change and unwanted behavior.

A collaborative, empathetic, and client-centered counseling approach that is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion.  Instead of confronting or advising, it uses open-ended questions and reflective listening to empower individuals to explore their own reasons for change.

A treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that involves gradually confronting trauma-related memories and situations. Through imaginal and real life exposure, patients repeatedly tell the story of their trauma to a therapist and  gradually face avoided situations in real life. This helps patients learn that the feared memories and situations are not dangerous, which decreases their PTSD symptoms.

University of Central Florida- Orlando, FL

University of Florida- Gainesville, FL