About Shawayna
Shawayna Teal, LMHC, helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and depression. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life feel more doable. Her approach aims to reduce overwhelming feelings and rebuild confidence so people can move forward.
She believes clients have strengths to draw on and guides them to find those strengths. Sessions use straightforward tools from cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused methods. Conversations focus on what is causing distress now and what can change next.
Background and approach
Shawayna keeps sessions goal-oriented and concrete. She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to test what works. She also supports processing past hurts that keep affecting current life.
Common concerns she addresses include anxiety, panic, low self-esteem, social fears, and reactions after trauma or abuse. She also helps with relationship communication, feelings of abandonment, caregiver stress, and managing impulsivity or guilt. Her style is warm and direct.
She offers tools you can use between sessions and checks progress together. With five years of experience as a licensed mental health counselor in Florida, she aims to make therapy understandable and useful. To begin, people complete a brief questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
Therapy is offered through sessions that fit into everyday routines and can be adjusted as goals change.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Many of the techniques Shawayna uses come from cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused approaches. Cognitive-behavioral techniques help people notice thoughts that increase anxiety and practice small behavior changes to reduce worry and avoidance. Solution-focused techniques concentrate on goals and practical steps you can take right away to feel better and handle stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, what has helped or not helped before, and what feels doable for you. Together you will try approaches, check what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so sessions stay focused on your priorities.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when interaction matters most. 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, brief coaching, or people who prefer typing over speaking. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or busy days while keeping momentum toward your goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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