Works with
- Anger
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
How Shirley works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Shirley
Shirley Colee is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anger, relationship strain, grief, trauma, and symptoms of depression and anxiety. Her approach starts with listening and treating each person with respect and compassion.
She prefers straightforward conversations. Shirley tailors sessions to each person's needs and pace. That may mean teaching coping skills for stress and anger, working through painful memories, or finding ways to rebuild hope after loss.
Background and approach
Her work draws on client-centered methods that focus on the person in front of her. She also uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance. When trauma is a core issue, she may include eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to help process difficult memories.
Discussions are practical and goal-focused, with clear steps people can try between sessions. Shirley sees how life changes can unsettle daily functioning and identity. She helps people with career stress, caregiving burdens, impulsivity, addiction concerns, and attachment or family-of-origin difficulties.
The aim is clearer thinking and more manageable reactions. Her practice is based in Florida and she works in English. Shirley welcomes people who are ready to take a step toward better anger management, improved relationships, or relief from anxiety and grief.
What Shirley works with
Everything Shirley lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Shirley's practice.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Shirley lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Shirley uses proven approaches online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and values. It involves careful listening, reflecting what someone says, and helping them find their own solutions. This approach is useful for building trust and exploring relationship and family concerns.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts shape feelings and actions. Sessions include practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors, which can reduce anger, anxiety, and low mood. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for regulating intense emotions, managing impulses, and handling stressful moments more effectively.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try techniques that fit those goals, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That way the plan reflects the client's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is helpful when visual connection matters, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and varied schedules.
Questions people ask about Shirley
What concerns does Shirley address?
She helps with anger, relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, anxiety, addictions, self-esteem, and related issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Sessions are person-focused and practical. She blends client-centered listening with cognitive and behavioral techniques to teach skills for emotion and stress management.
How much experience does she have?
She has 20 years of professional work experience supporting people through grief, trauma, relationship conflict, and mood concerns.
What credentials and location apply?
She is a licensed mental health counselor, FL LMHC, and practices from Florida.
Which languages and international options are offered?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She works using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start a first session?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.