About Shanti
Shanti Turner is a licensed Master of Social Work who focuses on creating a calm, steady space for people dealing with stress and anxiety. She uses straightforward, practical talk to help clients sort through what feels overwhelming. Her approach centers on listening first and working at the client’s pace.
With ten years of clinical experience, Shanti draws on Client-Centered Therapy to make sessions focused on each person's priorities. She pairs that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
Motivational Interviewing is used when people want to build momentum toward concrete goals. Shanti helps with mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, and with life transitions that leave people feeling stuck. She also supports those coping with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue from caregiving or work stress.
Practical skills and small steps are emphasized over abstract theory. Clients can expect short-term strategies alongside exploration of deeper issues like attachment, abandonment, or persistent shame. Sessions often include goal setting, thought restructuring, and planning manageable behavioral changes.
The tone is collaborative and paced to what feels doable for each person. Shanti practices in Michigan and works in English. She accepts international clients and offers multiple online formats to fit different schedules.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a time that works for them.
How choice of approach meets online therapy
Shanti uses Client-Centered Therapy to ground work in what matters most to the person. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and following the client’s lead to build trust and clarify goals.She also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a practical method that looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavioral experiments to test new ways of coping with anxiety or low mood.
Motivational Interviewing is used when people want to find internal reasons to change. It involves gentle questioning that helps someone discover their own motivation and set achievable next steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shanti will discuss options and tailor methods based on each person’s needs, goals, and preferences. The plan is developed together and adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer discussions and exercises that use visual aids. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in fits the schedule. Live chat and messaging allow for shorter check-ins or reflections between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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