About Shakira
Shakira Thomas is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee with seven years of counseling experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, anger, and depression. Shakira frames clients as experts in their own lives and helps them use their strengths to move forward.
She begins by listening closely to what matters most to each person. Sessions aim to untangle immediate problems and build simple, practical skills for day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Shakira often uses mindfulness and cognitive tools to help reduce worry and manage strong emotions. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. She uses client-centered methods that keep the conversation focused on the client's goals.
Motivational interviewing techniques are used when someone needs help deciding on change and finding the motivation to act. Shakira also draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning when life feels empty or confusing. She works with issues like abandonment, attachment patterns, body image, codependency, and forgiveness in ways that connect real feelings to practical choices.
Many clients look for help with communication problems, commitment fears, and the stress that comes from caregiving or family-of-origin issues. Shakira helps people talk through these patterns and try new ways of responding that fit their values.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Shakira often blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy. Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and following their goals, which helps when someone needs a listening space and steady support. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and actions that keep anxiety and low mood going and teaches practical skills to change them.She also uses mindfulness techniques to help people notice stress and respond more calmly. Mindfulness practices are brief and focused on simple attention exercises that can ease worry and improve emotional balance between sessions. Finding the right mix of these approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and together decide which methods to try first and how to adjust over time.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexible options. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when that feels important. Phone meetings can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text work well for short check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep progress moving between in-person demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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