About Shanekka
Shanekka Brown-Johnson is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and difficult life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that can be used between sessions. Her style is warm and direct while still being respectful of each person's background and values.
Shanekka draws on 14 years of experience in a range of settings. That experience includes residential mental health, substance abuse treatment, schools, domestic violence and family shelters, and outpatient work.
Background and approach
She brings that variety into sessions by offering tools that fit everyday life and real-world demands. Her approach mixes several evidence-informed methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and motivational interviewing appear often in her work.
She also uses narrative and client-centered ideas to help people rewrite unhelpful stories and build toward clearer goals. Shanekka often helps people dealing with trauma, panic attacks, depression, low self-esteem, caregiver stress, and relationship or family of origin problems. She also supports those facing adoption or foster care issues, multicultural concerns, and midlife transitions.
Conversations emphasize skills, values, and steps you can try between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and take place with a California-based LMFT. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits your life.
The focus is on collaborative work to reduce symptoms and build lasting coping strategies.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values, often reducing avoidance of difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms like panic or low mood. Motivational Interviewing focuses on building motivation and resolving mixed feelings about change to help people move toward their goals.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and preferences and suggest a mix of methods that fits the person. That collaboration helps tailor sessions and decide which skills to practice between meetings.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful for full sessions that include visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send thoughts between sessions, share wins, and check in without scheduling a full call. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California, Alaska
- Languages
- English
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