LaShelle is the founder of Wise Heart which has been helping people with practical skills for personal transformation and creating fulfilling relationships for the last 20 years. Her formal training includes a bachelor's degree in psychology, a graduate degree in school psychology (Ed.S.), 20 years of dedicated mindfulness and meditation practice, certification as a trainer in Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and three years of training with M.E.T.A. - Mindful Experiential Therapeutic Approaches.

Through over 20 years of training and experience, LaShelle has created a system of personal transformation and relationship competency called Mindful Compassionate Dialogue (MCD). This system provides a roadmap to becoming a relationship master by defining and operationalizing the essential aspects of creating a confident sense of self as well engaging in the consciousness and skills that facilitate living from compassion, wisdom, mindfulness, and agency.