About Shanita
Shanita Burgess is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who supports people coping with stress and anxiety. She focuses on helping clients reduce burnout, manage overwhelming thoughts, and regain energy for daily life. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people move from surviving to thriving.
Shanita uses clear, goal-focused work to spot the thoughts that lead to fatigue and defeat. She helps people learn to identify unhelpful thinking, trace where those thoughts come from, and reframe them into more useful perspectives.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize small, doable changes that build confidence over time. Her style blends client-centered listening with cognitive and behavioral tools. Mindfulness skills and Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas are woven in when they fit a person’s needs.
Motivational interviewing techniques help people connect therapy work to real goals like better energy, improved mood, or healthier relationships. Shanita has eleven years of counseling experience and holds the Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor credential, LCMHC. She works with a wide range of concerns including depression, trauma and abuse, grief, career strain, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports issues related to identity and LGBT concerns. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The process starts with a short matching questionnaire to help pair someone with the right therapist, then scheduling is arranged to fit availability.
Approaches that fit online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s goals. It helps people feel heard and then guides work toward the outcomes they care about, such as less stress or clearer priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, brings practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving coping. It includes breathing and mindfulness tools, emotional regulation strategies, and steps for handling overwhelming moments.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. That shared decision-making helps people try strategies that work for their life and schedule.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face work and practicing skills together. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people send thoughts between sessions and fit moments of support into a busy day. These options make consistent care easier to maintain alongside work, family, and everyday obligations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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