About Shashana
Shashana Carter is a licensed clinician who blends a client-centered approach with practical tools to help people manage stress and anxiety. She holds an MD and social work licenses listed as LCSW-C and LICSW. Shashana draws on six years of focused clinical experience to support people working through depression, grief, trauma, and relationship concerns.
She listens carefully and keeps sessions warm and respectful. Conversations focus on what matters most to the person in the room and on small, doable steps that lead to change.
Background and approach
Sessions mix inquiry about patterns with clear strategies that address everyday problems like sleep, eating, or coping with life changes. Shashana uses client-centered work to prioritize each person’s goals and values. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to see what works.
Those approaches are often paired with practical problem solving when people face addictions, anger, or issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Her background includes experience in community settings and substance-related services. That experience informs a straightforward, strengths-based style aimed at helping people find stable routines and better coping skills.
Shashana pays attention to how life transitions, career stress, or caring responsibilities affect mental health. Sessions are offered in English and provided to people located in Maryland. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How client-centered care and CBT work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s priorities and experiences. The therapist listens without judgment and helps people clarify what they want to change, making sessions feel collaborative and goal-focused. This approach is useful for concerns like grief, relationship challenges, self-esteem, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple skills to test unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, mood changes, sleep difficulties, and coping with stress or compulsive patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust plans together based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide collaboratively which methods to emphasize and when to change course.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit a short break. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, homework support, and regular contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work around life and to use tools that fit each person’s routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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