About Shanika
Shanika Katara Jones is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and relationship concerns. She also supports those facing life changes and crises of direction.
She creates a welcoming space where people can speak openly about their thoughts and feelings. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and build practical ways to cope.
Background and approach
Shanika emphasizes a nonjudgmental tone and steady support while clients take steps toward change. Her work blends talking and practical techniques. She may use cognitive-behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking.
She also draws on mindfulness to help people notice and steady strong emotions. For deeper, longer-standing patterns she uses client-centered and existential perspectives to explore meaning and personal values. She can also use EMDR when past events are shaping current distress.
Shanika tailors methods to each person’s needs rather than following a single recipe. People come to her to feel more confident, manage mood swings, repair communication, or move forward after loss. She helps break big problems into small, doable steps.
The focus is on what will help in daily life and relationships. Shanika works in English and practices in Florida as an LMHC. She encourages a collaborative process and supports clients as they try new ways of coping and relating to themselves and others.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's perspective. It helps people feel heard and encourages them to find their own solutions to problems like anxiety or relationship strain.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. In short, it helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new behaviors to reduce stress and depressive symptoms.
EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, is used when past events keep causing present distress. It involves guided processing to reduce the emotional intensity tied to those memories and can help with post-traumatic stress reactions.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals and try methods that match the client's needs and comfort level. This collaborative planning makes it easier to adjust techniques if something isn't working.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a camera-free check-in is preferred. Live chat and messaging support quick check-ins and ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules and different comfort levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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