Shelley Schneider, LCSW

Shelley Schneider is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida with 35 years of clinical experience. She works with adults and older adults on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Shelley also helps people facing caregiving strain, cancer and hospice issues, divorce, and questions about life purpose.

Shelley uses a problem-solving approach that focuses on how thoughts affect behavior. She explains thinking patterns plainly and helps people test different responses to situations. Sessions are direct and practical, with an emphasis on small, doable changes between meetings.

Her work often centers on reducing unhelpful thinking, improving communication, and managing guilt or shame that follows transitions like separation or illness. She pays attention to the challenges of aging and end-of-life concerns and to stresses placed on caregivers. Practical tools and step-by-step strategies are common parts of sessions.

Shelley describes her style as calm and respectful, balancing honesty with support. She aims to give clear feedback and concrete homework rather than vague discussion. Clients who prefer a straightforward, structured approach to managing symptoms and life problems tend to do best with her methods.

With decades of experience, Shelley draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy techniques to keep work focused and time-effective. People who want to notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors will find her approach a good fit.

How Shelley applies CBT and solution-focused methods online