About Shevene
Shevene Bryant is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers calm, direct support for people facing loss, life changes, or intense emotions. Her tone is warm and practical, aimed at helping clients take small steps forward.
She draws on a person-centered way of working that starts with the client's experience and needs. She blends that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behavior patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques when they fit the situation. Her training and work have included mental health centers, hospitals, and independent practice in North Carolina. She brings experience with a wide range of concerns including grief, parenting strain, addictions, body image issues, sleep problems, anger, and low self-esteem.
Anxiety and stress are frequent focuses in her work. Sessions emphasize straightforward tools and practical coping strategies. She helps clients name problems, set realistic goals, and try experiments between sessions.
The pace and methods are adjusted to what each person finds useful. Shevene is the author of a children’s book called Emotions and incorporates a multicultural perspective into care. Her approach aims to help people understand their situation, cope more effectively, and move through challenges toward better functioning.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Shevene uses Client-Centered Therapy to focus on each person's lived experience and goals. This approach means listening closely, reflecting what clients say, and shaping sessions around their priorities. It is helpful for people who need acceptance and steady support while they sort through difficult feelings.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT offers concrete skills for anxiety, sleep problems, mood shifts, and coping with life changes. Those skills translate well to online sessions through guided exercises and homework between meetings.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Shevene will collaborate with clients to decide which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and preferences. That includes adjusting techniques over time as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper weekly sessions and joint planning. Phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit brief updates, coaching-style guidance, or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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