About Shantel
Shantel Westbrook is a licensed clinician practicing in Kansas. She holds the LCP credential and brings 20 years of professional experience to sessions. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people facing addictions, low self-esteem, and major life changes.
She aims to make sessions straightforward and welcoming. Shantel encourages people to talk about what matters most without feeling judged. She explains steps plainly and works at a pace that fits each person.
Background and approach
Her work often centers on practical coping skills for daily problems. That can mean strategies for sleep, managing panic or phobias, and finding motivation during career or life transitions. She also supports people dealing with grief, compassion fatigue, and mood struggles.
Shantel has helped people navigate issues related to aging and caregiving, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and challenges around substance use. She addresses communication problems, divorce and separation concerns, and feelings of emptiness or loss of purpose. Sessions are aimed at building small, usable changes over time.
She supports clients managing ADHD symptoms, panic attacks, and phobias with clear steps and regular check-ins. Parents and caregivers looking for practical guidance often find the focus helpful. People who want a steady, experienced guide for managing stress or making life changes may find her approach approachable.
She invites first steps that feel doable and keeps the conversation focused on real-life needs.
Evidence-Based Tools and Online Support
Shantel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that emphasize practical skills and measurable steps. One common approach focuses on teaching coping strategies for anxiety and panic - breathing and grounding exercises, brief behavioral experiments, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance. Another approach centers on behavioral activation and mood management for depression - identifying small, doable activities that increase pleasure and a sense of accomplishment to lift mood over time.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals, try methods that match your needs, and adjust based on what helps. Decisions about techniques are collaborative and paced to your comfort level.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you talk face to face for deeper conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a camera isn’t convenient. Live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins, quick skill coaching, or staying connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit support into a busy schedule and to keep progress steady.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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