About Shunda
Dr. Shunda Brown helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or low mood. She is a licensed professional counselor with the LPC-MHSP credential and 15 years of clinical experience.
Her approach is practical and direct, aimed at making daily life feel more manageable. She focuses on the concerns that often come together - anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem. She also addresses related problems such as abandonment worries, attachment concerns, caregiving stress, and forgiveness work.
Background and approach
Sessions are focused on understanding what is most upsetting now and finding steps that can help right away. In sessions she creates an open space where people can speak without judgment. She listens for patterns that keep problems stuck and helps clients test new ways of coping.
The work is collaborative and paced to match each person’s needs and comfort level. Dr. Brown uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide the work and adapts strategies to fit each person.
She supports practical skills for managing strong emotions and navigating difficult relationships. The aim is clearer thinking, better daily functioning, and increased confidence. People typically arrive wanting relief from worry, repeated pain from past events, or help rebuilding after loss.
Dr. Brown helps them name the problem, pick doable goals, and take the next steps toward feeling steadier and more capable.
Evidence-based approaches and online sessions
Dr. Brown relies on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions. One common approach focuses on teaching coping skills for anxiety and stress - practical exercises that help manage racing thoughts and reduce physical tension. Another approach emphasizes processing trauma and painful memories at a pace the client can handle, with techniques to reduce reactivity and improve daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, review what has or hasn't worked before, and together decide which techniques to try first. Adjustments are made as progress and comfort levels become clearer, so the plan evolves with the client's needs.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make appointments easier to fit into busy lives. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a brief check-in is needed, and chat or messaging lets people touch base between sessions or use shorter check-ins. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and access support from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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