About Shantele
Shantele Weaver is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She brings four years of clinical experience and uses straightforward, practical conversation to help people take the next step. Her style respects each person’s strengths and choices while offering tools to cope with difficult moments.
She draws on methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and client-centered work. Sessions often include checking what matters most to the client, practicing small behavior changes, and building skills to manage strong emotions.
Background and approach
Shantele uses plain language and creates a space for honest, down-to-earth problem solving. Her background includes work with people facing addiction concerns, grief, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She has also supported people dealing with aging-related issues, chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress, and challenges after incarceration.
This experience informs a flexible approach that adapts to each person’s situation. Shantele emphasizes collaboration. She listens for the goals a person brings and then helps them set simple steps toward those goals.
Practical tools, steady encouragement, and short-term skill building are common parts of her work. People who choose her often want direct help with day-to-day coping, clearer direction at a stressful time, or strategies to reduce anxiety and regain control. She offers therapy in English and works remotely with clients located in North Carolina.
Approach and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match what matters most. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and feeling overwhelmed by emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which often helps with anxiety and mood concerns. Motivational Interviewing is a short-term, conversational style that helps people find their own reasons to change, particularly useful for addictions and shifting habits.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try methods that match your needs. You and the therapist adjust the plan as you learn what works best through regular check-ins and simple homework exercises.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets you work face-to-face when needed, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat is a quick way to check in, and messaging supports short updates or reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, South Carolina, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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