About Shahadah
Shahadah Lucas-Curtis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, anger, and self-esteem struggles. She focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day. Shahadah believes people have strengths they can build on and offers calm, steady support while they work through challenges.
She frames the work as a partnership. Shahadah listens first to understand what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Then she helps set clear, achievable goals and practices that fit real life. Sessions are straightforward and goal oriented, with attention to what feels useful for the client. Over nine years of professional experience inform her approach.
Shahadah has helped people facing attachment issues, blended family stress, communication problems, control challenges, and caregiver strain. She also supports clients coping with body image concerns, guilt, shame, isolation, and the emotional impacts of HIV/AIDS. Shahadah works with people dealing with divorce, domestic violence histories, forgiveness struggles, and impulsivity.
She also addresses gender dysphoria questions and blended family difficulties using focused conversation and practical skills. Her practice emphasizes clear problem solving and gradual change. Sessions can take place through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs.
Shahadah encourages those who are ready to take the first step to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their life.
Approaches that guide online work
Shahadah uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and build coping skills. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing different ways of reacting; this helps reduce anxiety and stress by changing day-to-day responses. Another approach centers on improving communication and attachment patterns, which supports people dealing with relationship strain, blended family issues, and caregiver stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Shahadah collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences, and she adjusts strategies as progress is made. The plan evolves based on what is helpful and what fits the client’s life.
Online therapy can be a practical way to get consistent support. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation from different locations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide flexibility for quick updates, ongoing reflection, and scheduling around busy days. These options make it easier to keep therapy part of a real routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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