About Shakena
Dr. Shakena Mabry is a licensed clinical social worker with over 12 years of experience. She practices in Maryland and helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and related life challenges.
She focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier in day-to-day life. Her approach starts with listening. She treats each person as the expert on their own story and builds on existing strengths.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and useful, with small goals that stack into real change.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill-building for coping with anxiety, mood differences, and stress from relationships or work. Dr. Mabry uses methods that help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of responding.
She also supports people navigating grief, addictions, identity and sexuality questions, and multicultural concerns. People who come to her for help with parenting strain, caregiver stress, or codependency find focused tools to manage overwhelm. She also works with concerns such as bipolar mood changes, seasonal affective disorder, and impulsivity by teaching strategies to reduce distress and improve routine.
Her background includes work across different settings over more than a decade. That variety informs a flexible style that blends practical exercises with calm, respectful conversation. She helps people set realistic steps, track progress, and adjust plans as life changes.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts. It can help with anxiety, avoidance, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical exercises to change patterns that fuel worry or low mood. It is often used for anxiety and mood concerns. EMDR uses guided recall combined with focused eye movements or other bilateral stimulation to reduce the emotional intensity of traumatic memories; it can be helpful for people with post-traumatic stress and lingering trauma symptoms.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. You and the therapist will check in on progress and adjust the plan together if something is not working.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy week. Video lets you see and hear your therapist for deeper conversation. Phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options are meant to increase flexibility and help people get consistent care without long travel or scheduling barriers.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, District of Columbia, New York, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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