About Shalisa
Shalisa Partee, MD, LCSW-C helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She listens with care and focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. Her approach centers on building strengths and small, steady change.
She uses straightforward conversation to identify what feels most urgent. Sessions often break big problems into manageable tasks. She encourages clients to try new ways of coping and then review what works.
Shalisa draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current feelings.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and change everyday routines. These approaches are used to reduce panic, manage mood swings, and improve sleep and daily functioning. Her background includes five years of professional experience and holding both MD and LCSW-C credentials.
She practices in Maryland and conducts sessions in English. She frames therapy as a partnership and helps people set realistic goals. People come to her for help with a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety, including ADHD, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, eating and sleeping issues, workplace stress, and parenting stress.
She also addresses communication problems, guilt and shame, isolation, postpartum mood changes, and other related challenges. Shalisa supports gradual change through clear plans and regular check-ins. She aims to make therapy useful and doable for busy lives, focusing on small wins that add up over time.
How these approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how important relationships shape feelings and behavior. Online sessions use conversation to identify patterns that cause anxiety or disconnection and then test new ways of relating and coping. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. In remote sessions clients learn practical tools and homework exercises to try between meetings to reduce symptoms like panic and low mood.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they choose whether attachment work, CBT, or a mix will best match the client's needs, and they adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, shorter updates, or when writing helps process thoughts. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work breaks, caregiving routines, or times when traveling would make in-person visits hard.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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