About Shaniece
Shaniece Goodman is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California who focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction. She creates a calm, respectful space where people can name what feels hard and take small steps toward feeling better. Her manner is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel understood quickly.
Shaniece helps people work on communication, reduce social anxiety, and handle feelings of shame or isolation. She uses practical, evidence-based techniques to build coping skills and to support emotional healing.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - clients set goals and Shaniece offers tools to reach them. Her work also addresses family-related concerns such as blended family issues, adoption and foster care questions, and communication problems. She has additional experience with chronic illness, aging issues, attachment concerns, and navigating commitment or control difficulties.
Shaniece pays attention to each person's background and life story when planning care. With three years of clinical experience, Shaniece blends structure with empathy. She aims to help people recognize patterns, try new behaviors, and notice progress over time.
The focus is on real-life changes that fit a person's daily routines. People who choose Shaniece can expect straightforward talk, gentle challenges when needed, and practical homework between sessions. Her goal is to help clients build self-compassion, stronger connections, and clearer communication skills.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Shaniece uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people learn coping skills and structured ways to manage anxiety and depression, using exercises and small behavior changes to reduce distress. Another approach emphasizes improving communication and attachment patterns, helping people notice relational habits and practice clearer, more effective ways of connecting.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shaniece collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts strategies as progress is made so treatment stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between meetings or use shorter, frequent touchpoints. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping care consistent and accessible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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