Shantelle Wells, LCPC, LPC

Shantelle Wells is a licensed counselor practicing in Missouri and Kansas with 18 years of experience helping people navigate life transitions, relationships, and emotional challenges. Holding LCPC and LPC credentials - state licenses to practice as a professional counselor - she brings a warm, steady presence to work with issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting concerns, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and compassion fatigue.

Shantelle emphasizes meeting people where they are and supporting them through the discomfort that often accompanies change. She frames therapy as a space to be vulnerable without judgment, where difficult feelings and hard stories can be expressed and examined. Her approach encourages learning how to tolerate uncomfortable emotions as a path toward growth and renewed purpose.

With experience across individual and family concerns, she addresses attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, communication and control problems, and challenges around divorce, domestic violence, and separation. She also works with panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, isolation and loneliness, guilt and shame, and the search for life purpose. Shantelle aims to help clients rebuild a sense of balance and hope in practical, step-by-step ways, supporting each person as they restore peace, joy, and a clearer sense of self.

Therapeutic Approaches for Remote Support

Shantelle draws from attachment-based, client-centered, and cognitive behavioral approaches to tailor online care to each person's needs. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns - it can help with trust, abandonment, codependency, and relationship difficulties by uncovering relational dynamics and building healthier connection skills.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and respect for each person's experience. This approach supports self-discovery and empowerment, helping people find their own answers when facing life changes, parenting challenges, or questions about meaning and purpose.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It offers practical tools to manage anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and unhelpful thinking, with strategies clients can practice between sessions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shantelle works with clients to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and she adapts methods over time to match progress and changing needs. Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging provides flexibility for busy schedules, supports consistent access to care from home, and makes it easier to integrate therapeutic work into everyday life.