About Shakirah
Shakirah Ewell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and major life transitions. Her approach aims to help clients feel steadier and more capable in day-to-day life.
She uses clear, practical strategies in sessions. That can include looking at unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Sessions emphasize small, doable steps that fit into a person's routine.
Background and approach
The goal is to create changes that last beyond the therapy room. Shakirah combines talk therapy with tools for coping and emotion regulation. She draws on methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior ideas to help with overwhelming feelings.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques guide short-term goal setting and decision-making. Her work often addresses relationship strain, parenting stress, career pressures, and the effects of major life changes like separation or blended family transitions. She also supports people dealing with postpartum challenges, isolation, money worries, and workplace difficulties.
Attention-related concerns such as ADHD and questions about self-esteem are also within her focus. In sessions, she aims to listen first and set goals together. People who want practical tools, clearer thinking, and steady progress tend to find this style useful.
Appointments are structured but flexible to each person's needs.
How evidence-based talk therapy fits online
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and valuing their goals. It’s about listening closely and shaping sessions around what the client wants to work on. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical steps to shift unhelpful thinking and try new actions. These approaches help with anxiety, depression, and life changes by giving clear tools to use between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose which methods to use based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. Sessions begin with shared goal setting and adjust over time so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit people who prefer not to use video, live chat fits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing check-ins and brief coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, manage bandwidth or camera needs, and maintain regular contact between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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