About Shanteria
Shanteria Onyemem is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people cope with anxiety, stress, trauma, and major life changes. She focuses on practical support for depression, self-esteem struggles, addiction concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, and grief. Her style is calm and direct, aimed at helping people feel steadier day to day.
In sessions she listens first, then helps people set small, realistic goals. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot thought patterns that increase distress.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are shared when tension and sleep troubles make daily life harder. Shanteria also draws on client-centered and emotionally-focused approaches to improve how people relate to themselves and others. These methods guide conversations about boundaries, communication, and rebuilding trust after hurt.
Psychodynamic ideas may be used to look at how past experiences still affect current choices. With 15 years of experience as an LPC, she brings steady experience to complex problems like trauma, addiction, and ongoing stress. Sessions aim to combine immediate coping strategies with longer-term work on patterns and meaning.
People who work with her can expect clear explanations, concrete exercises to practice between sessions, and planning around daily routines like sleep and work. She offers services in English and accepts international clients, meeting by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It means conversations that follow what matters most to the client and centers the client's priorities and values. This approach helps when someone needs space to make sense of feelings and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, offers clear tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, stress, and for breaking patterns that feed depression or anger. Sessions include practice exercises that can be used between contacts to see real change.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and shift patterns in relationships and closeness. It supports work on communication, trust, and intimacy-related issues that affect daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a client's goals, needs, and preferences. Early meetings are used to try techniques and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller exchange is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick updates, journaling-style reflection, or people who prefer nonverbal communication. These options make it simpler to maintain regular contact and to fit work on anxiety and stress into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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