About me
I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Florida with over 15 years of experience working in various institutions. I have worked with clients with a wide range of mental health concerns, to include; Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Personality Disorders, Depression, Anxiety, and PTSD. I also have experience working with teens, who can be very challenging, but often just want to be heard.
I provide reality based counseling with warmth and support. I believe that everyone should be treated with dignity and respect. My approach combines reality therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and solution focused therapy. My focus is client centered.
You are the most important person in this process called change. If you are willing, I will support and empower you every step of the way. I look forward to our encounter.
Specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationships
- Anger management
- Self esteem, Motivation
- Depression
Addictions , Family conflicts , Trauma and abuse , Grief , Parenting issues , Career difficulties , Bipolar disorder , Coping with life changes , ADHD , Abandonment , Blended family issues , Caregiver issues and stress , Read more...
Clinical approaches:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
Services offered
Messaging
Phone
Video
Licensing
FL LMHC MH9799
Reviews
These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Shonda Hart-Wright. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with Teen Counseling might be different.
Mrs. Hart-Wright has truly been a gem for me. Straight-forward yet warm, she has helped me to better navigate my personal and marital journeys. I highly recommend her!
“You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words”. by: Frank A. Clark
She listens, understands and leaves you in thought, a different perspective! I’ll keep coming back as long as I can.
She is very honest with you. She opens your eyes to the truth about your problems. As long as you’re honest and open with her, she can help
She is excellent!
Shonda continually leaves me feeling heard and also with useful tools to put into place and alternative viewpoints to my issues I’m navigating through.
She is amazing! After many failed therapists, I found her and never looked back.
She’s amazing it’s hard to keep up with the kids home during summer but she’s awesome
Shonda is absolutely amazing. She has made therapy so easy and comforting. She listens to me and gives me tips on how to be better. I truly appreciate her expertise.
Ms.Shonda is a blessing!
Shonda has really helped me grow into a person I can be proud of. Of course there's always things I can work on but progress is progress :)
Amazing!
She is an excellent therapist who has a great skill set. A very good listener and always gives me useful resources and homework. I have made a lot of progress working with her.
She is very honest and up front . I have truly developed better life habits because of her :)
Shonda is truly amazing!
Shonda was very kind and patient. She has been a great support for us over these last few months.
She is a wonderful counselor and therapist
Shonda made my first experience of counselling very positive. She listened to my concerns and gave me multiple options of how to respond to my situations. I appreciate the questions Shonda asked and her way of pressing for answers, knowing that I needed to search myself a little deeper. Shonda is charismatic, I instantly felt comfortable talking to her. She really spoke to my visual brain with great metaphors and verbal illustrations.
I absolutely love Shonda! She’s so wonderful! She’s loving, comforting and most importantly supportive. She will tell you what you need to hear without sugar coating anything. Offers amazing advice while still providing the ear to listen closely! She genuinely wants the best for you and is willing to help you get there!
Shonda is amazing. I have nothing but great things to say about her.
Shonda understands me better than I understand myself, very punctual, always willing to listen and comes up with very unique ways to help me figure myself out.
I’ve never been in therapy before. Shonda really made me feel comfortable and had a lot of really good advice. Her personality made this experience great! I definitely recommend her :)
Excellent therapist wonderful at helping me to deal with issues I am struggling with.
My first time doing therapy, and I have been so lucky to find Shonda. She is kind, but doesn't sugar coat things. She's understanding, but also is able to make you see things from another perspective. She's easy to talk to, and gives suggestions as to how to deal with a problem. After 3 months I can see real changes in my life, and those have helped me with both my personal and professional relationships. I highly recommend Shonda Hart!
She is fantastic in the short time i have spoken with her.
I always feel really comfortable sharing with Shonda and she always gives me a new perspective to look at things and reframes the way I think, I've found sessions with her tremendously helpful :)
She's an excellent therapist. Shonda has counciled me for a year and half and I've grown so much emotionally and mentally from her guidance.
I am very pleased with the services provided by Ms Shonda. My son extremely happy talking to her.
Shonda listens to me and takes from her training and experience to give me personalized advice. This helps me analyze my thoughts. She also offers support through chat and that helps me as it is help between sessions when I might need help.
Shonda is such an empathetic, knowledgeable, and professional therapist! I love how she is able to diagnose the problem and then provide new thought frameworks and behaviors for approaching it. She then does a great job of checking up on the progress made regarding a thought or behavior pattern. I highly recommend Shona!
Shonda has a way of understanding even when I feel like I don’t make any sense. Her advice has changed my life for the better.
Miss Shonda So Far Has Been Very Good To Me, I Do Feel As If She Is Concerned About my well Being and My Progress with Seeking Therapy. She is very Hands on and For my first time taking Therapy I am very thankful I was Blessed with her as A Therapist .
Shonda is everything a first-timer could hope for in a therapist. She is disarmingly straight-forward and offers her listening ear and insightful advice in every session.
Shonda has really been a great help for me. She helps me understand what is going on with my thoughts and is very open and honest. She is very accommodating with my busy schedule, and she truly understands the importance of self care and mental health. I greatly appreciate her guidance!
Therapist tells it like it is and was extremely helpful to clear up things for me.
Shonda is kind, genuine, compassionate, and professional. I appreciate her skill set and approaches. I am grateful that she is my therapist and that she holds me accountable in ways that are best tailored to my wellness journey. I enjoy sharing my thoughts with Shonda as she creates a safe and nonjudgmental space. I am also thankful she provides me with worksheets/information as well as encourages me to participate in groups.
Shonda has been amazing and I can’t wait to continue to improve myself with her guidance
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I feel very comfortable with Shonda, she has given me so many tools that help me every single day. I am very glad to have signed up for this service and been matched with her.
First time in getting help, I didn't know what to expect. I was afraid there would be a lot of head nodding and "and how does this make you feel". I don't like these kinds of situations, I prefer a more interactive to and fro. Shonda is amazing, interactive, listens and offers advice. She is uplifting and you feel like your talking to someone who truely cares. I am blessed that she is my therapist.
Great understanding of my concerns.
Shonda is amazing! She's very friendly and really does it right with using the right worksheets and setting the right expectations with you. She is very easy to talk with and will for sure help you out.
Shonda has been amazing, ive only had a few sessions with her but I already feel comfortable talking to her about problems wich is something I struggle with doing. Shonda has such a nice and welcoming personality so it's easy to get along with her and makes me feel at ease, especially as I was very nervouse coming into this.
Talking to Shonda always feels like a warm embrace from a close aunt or mom, she listens with heart and lets you vent but at the same time she will reel you back and keep you grounded so you won't get lost in your emotional spiral.
Shonda listens and guides to find the answers within me and gives me practical tools to deal with whatever it is I am going through. Highly recommend, plus she makes the sessions feel like talking to a friend
Had my first session with Shonda and already I’m feeling happy with the support I’ve received. I feel extremely comfortable with her! would recommend to anyone.
Shonda is very upbeat and brings fun to her practice. She has a lot of wisdom and experience too. I would definitely recommend Shonda.
Shonda is a great consultant. Her cheerful personality make the consultation session very relax and I really enjoy talking with her, and share my problem with her. She always share me a lot of tools to cope with my anxiety and I think is really work for me. Thanks Shonda!
Shonda is a very professional person.
Her knowledge and pleasant personality are tools to break up the ice and solve her clients problems. Keep up the positivity Shonda
Ms Shonda! When I first decided to join teen counseling - I thought to myself I really hope I get someone who understands me. Who gets my language. She really does. Not only does she get me, but she has reminded me that the tools have always been inside me - she helped me awaken those tools. She never judges me, she listens intently & gives me space - space to figure it out. I'm incredibly thankful to have her in my life.
Shonda has been fantastic at facilitating a new perspective and has ultimately changed my perception of my day-to-day habits, work and emotions. I trust her completely and appreciate her delivery and communication style. I would recommend to all.
Shonda is really amazing with helping me to come up with solutions for a positive result in self growth!
Great therapist and mentor. I am blessed
I look forward to speaking with Ms. Shonda every week! After my sessions with her, I always leave feeling empowered and confident that I can get through all my situations. She helps me realize different things about myself and helps me to analyze things from different views. She is truly amazing and I am so thankful for her.
Shonda’s caring and honest approach during sessions helped me gain a healthy perspective on many things about myself that I didn’t fully understand.
The exercises and assignments also helped me get a grasp on how I could move forward and change the things I needed to change.
I find Shonda to be observant, thoughtful, respectful, honest, and kind as a counselor; varied in experience and also able to continuously learn through our conversations. My reason for seeking counseling is quite specific and unique, with multiple mental conditions and gymnastics at play, causing me to be hesitant to even seek counseling to begin with but teen counseling matched me perfectly it seems and Shonda has showed up even above and beyond what feels like would suffice for the average seeker. I am extremely grateful for having found Shonda; I believe when we are going through a hard time, the way we walk through the hard time can either be medicine or poison for our future. In only a couple of sessions I already feel heard, felt, and seen by Shonda as well as on my way through this challenging moment where, with Shonda's help, this moment can be medicine that turns the grime into gold. Thank you Shonda and teen counseling. I highly recommend Shonda.
I had bad experiences with other therapists before and I almost gave up. Shonda changed my mind and I feel very comfortable talking to her and I feel very cared. Therapy day is my favorite day of the week!
Ms. Shonda Hart has been very responsive to me. She listens to my concerns, addresses them, and follows up after
Talking with Shonda is like talking to a knowledgable and skilled sister. Remembering her counsel I think I will move forward in a more heartfelt way.