About Shaleen
Shaleen Robertson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical support for everyday problems and uses straightforward conversation to help clients move forward. She has worked with people facing addictions, relationship strain, and depression.
She also supports those dealing with trauma and grief, burnout and compassion fatigue, and major life changes. Shaleen aims to respond with respect and sensitivity in every session.
Background and approach
Her approach is collaborative and goal-oriented. She listens first, then tailors a plan that fits each person’s needs and pace. Sessions are focused on what is most useful right now, with tools and steps that are easy to try between meetings.
Shaleen brings nearly two decades of experience to difficult topics like panic, post-traumatic stress, and substance or process addictions. She also helps people facing chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image worries, and challenges related to military or first responder life. People can expect honest, calm feedback and clear suggestions for coping and change.
She encourages small, manageable steps toward better daily functioning and stronger emotional balance. The goal is to help people feel steadier and more able to handle life’s demands.
Approaches that help with anxiety and addiction online
Shaleen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and clear steps. One approach emphasizes teaching coping skills for anxiety and panic attacks so people can manage intense moments and reduce avoidance over time. Another approach focuses on understanding patterns that keep addictive behaviors going and building healthier routines and supports to replace them.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, and then recommend techniques to try. The plan can change as progress is made, with the therapist and client deciding together what works best.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care fit real life. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper connection, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging are useful for quick check-ins or when writing feels more comfortable. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep continuity when travel or relocation happens.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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