Shivana Gentry, LMHC

Shivana Gentry is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 13 years of experience. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, self-esteem struggles, career challenges, and the upheaval that comes with major life changes. Her approach emphasizes the client's own strengths and personal story.

Shivana centers sessions on collaboration and respect. She treats each person as the expert on their life while offering guidance and tools tailored to their situation. This includes practical strategies for managing anxiety, building confidence, and coping with burnout or compassion fatigue.

She uses a mix of well-known approaches to meet different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy and support while the person talks through what matters most to them.

Her experience also covers relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, addiction, ADHD, and midlife crisis issues. She helps people weigh options, set goals, and try small changes that add up over time.

Shivana aims to empower people to take the next step toward a more fulfilling life. She offers encouragement, practical skills, and steady support as people work through difficult transitions.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's lead. In practice this means the therapist offers empathic feedback and helps clients clarify what matters to them, which can be helpful for goal setting, self-esteem work, and coping with life changes.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors, which often helps with anxiety, mood concerns, and managing panic symptoms.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process and is decided together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. That collaborative process guides whether to emphasize CBT, client-centered work, mindfulness practices, or other methods.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into everyday life, such as scheduling shorter check-ins during a busy day or avoiding travel time. The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the available options before booking. Many people find that remote sessions help them stay consistent with therapy while balancing work, family, and other commitments.