About Shakira
Shakira Maldonado is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She offers direct, practical support for coping with life changes and relationship strain. Sessions are geared toward building everyday skills and clearer thinking rather than jargon or long lectures.
Shakira uses a personalized approach that mixes evidence-based therapeutic techniques and mindfulness. She focuses on developing coping strategies, improving emotional regulation, and strengthening self-awareness.
Background and approach
These tools are taught step by step so people can use them between sessions. She has three years of experience delivering individual therapy and works with both teens and adults. That background includes addressing pressures from school and social life, as well as adult concerns like breakup, career shifts, and ongoing stress.
Her practice emphasizes steady progress and realistic goals. In sessions she helps clients tackle attachment and abandonment worries, communication and commitment issues, codependency, and body image or control problems. First responder stress, caregiver strain, and forgiveness work are also areas she addresses when they arise in a person’s story.
Shakira holds LMHC credentials in Florida and New York. She offers therapy in English and provides several online session formats to fit different schedules and needs. Getting started requires a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling according to availability.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Shakira commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness-based techniques. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches practical steps to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness practices focus on moment-to-moment awareness and simple breathing or grounding exercises that reduce overwhelming feelings and improve emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She works with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they try techniques, notice what helps, and adapt the plan over time so it fits daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and preferences. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send notes or get brief support between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around school, work, or caregiving duties.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York, Florida
- Languages
- English
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