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Mental Health Counseling in Jacksonville, FL

You’ve done everything “right”...

so why does it still feel like something’s wrong?

You have worked hard to check all the boxes you thought you needed to be successful and content with your life. The education, the successful career, the marriage, friends and family. And yet… it seems to always feel like something is missing.

    • Have always excelled beyond expectations, but are now realizing you’ve ignored other parts of your life to do so

    • Want to be more productive, but your problems at home are making it difficult

    • Don’t understand how you can have so much success and still feel so inadequate

    • Struggle to find work/life balance and consider much of your identity to be connected to your career

    • Feel totally disconnected from your partner, and find you’re living more like roommates than lovers

    • Fight all the time, and don’t know how to communicate in a way that gets through to your partner

    • Don’t have sex as much as you used to, or you are not having sex at all—there is no intimacy and neither of you knows if you will ever be able to connect again

    • Have experienced infidelity, and trust has been broken

    • Sometimes work yourself up into a panic over big and little things, and want to learn skills or techniques that will help you take control of your anxiety

    • Constantly feel like you are waiting for the other shoe to drop

    • Don’t believe you deserve the things or success you have

    • Feel lonely, exhausted, lost, and overwhelmed

When you take the initiative to make positive changes in your life through counseling,

it can help you…

Communicate more effectively

Learn to communicate in a way others will understand, creating more positive interactions at work & at home and more intimacy in your relationship.

Understand yourself & others better

Know where your thoughts and feelings come from, how your actions affect those around you, and why others might feel or act the way they do.

Control your reactions

Have all the tools and skills you need to stay calm and regain composure in difficult situations and conflicts.

Make decisions more easily

Feel confident in what you want and need, and make decisions that help you get there

Allison Korman Shelton Jacksonville Counselor

Whatever your idea of a therapist is, I’m the opposite.

I’m Ali.

If you want someone who’s going to repeatedly ask “And how does that make you feel?” you are not going to find it here. My one goal is to work with my clients to create the tools in their toolbox to start feeling better in every aspect of their lives.

Why? Because I have been where you are, and through doing the hard work in my own therapy journey, I was able to create the best version of myself. As a result of my experience, I decided to start a new career in mental health counseling. But in a past life, I was a high-level executive who devoted and sacrificed everything I had—family, marriage, and friends—to focus on my career. I know how lonely it can feel in the cutthroat corporate world, especially when you’ve neglected your personal life to reach that level of success.

So now, the work I do is to help others find the level of personal fulfillment and balance I never knew was possible before therapy.

How I work

In our work together, you’ll hold the reins.

In the past, clients have said they enjoyed working with me because they never felt judged, could speak freely about anything, and were able to set the pace of their experience themselves.

I like to keep things super casual in our sessions—you’re always welcome to kick your feet up and dress comfortably. I want it to feel more like you’re just having a cup of coffee and a conversation with someone you connect with.

I will always meet you where you’re at in our sessions. All topics are welcome as we explore different ideas and solutions until we find something that will work for you.

If you’ve never been to therapy before and are feeling skeptical, I get that. Know that we’ll be doing so much more than just “sharing feelings.” We’ll be taking this journey together to help you have the marriage or partnership, career, and life you truly want.

Change starts with a decision.

Click the link below to take the first step toward change by requesting an appointment, which can usually be scheduled within a few days. Once you have done so, I will reach out to you to briefly discuss my process and approach and approach and answer any questions you may have for me.