About Shanta
Dr. Shanta Jerideau is a licensed professional counselor with seven years of experience. She practices in South Carolina and focuses on helping people facing stress and anxiety.
She aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive. Dr. Jerideau uses clear, direct conversation to identify what matters to each person.
She listens for values, patterns, and small changes that can make daily life easier. Sessions are shaped to meet practical needs rather than following a one-size-fits-all script.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with depression, relationship concerns, self-esteem, motivation, and confidence. She also has experience supporting people coping with grief, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and intimacy-related issues. She approaches these topics with sensitivity and respect for each person's story.
Dr. Jerideau draws on several well-known approaches in her work. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She also brings Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to support values-based action when avoidance gets in the way. In sessions she focuses on practical steps and steady progress. Conversations include skill-building, real-world experiments, and checking what actually helps.
The goal is to reduce distress and increase the things that matter to the client. She offers care in English and accepts international clients. People meeting her can expect a collaborative approach that adapts to their goals and day-to-day life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Jerideau regularly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and small experiments. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what they value and take actions aligned with those values, even when uncomfortable feelings come up. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss client goals, preferences, and daily routines to decide which methods to try first. That collaboration makes it easier to adjust strategies if something is not helping. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills coaching. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break or times with lower bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or people who prefer not to use video. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit into busy schedules and different life situations.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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