About Shaneka
Shaneka Boles is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She supports individuals coping with relationship concerns, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Her approach is straightforward and practical, aimed at making daily life feel more manageable.
She builds an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through difficult thoughts and feelings. Sessions focus on real problems and simple steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of talk therapy and evidence-based techniques to address patterns that keep problems going. Shaneka draws on client-centered work to follow a person’s lead and CBT to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses EMDR for people coping with strong trauma memories who want another way to process that pain.
These methods are described and chosen together with each client. With eight years of experience in counseling, she aims to be practical and direct while staying compassionate. People meet her for help with attachment or blended family issues, divorce and separation, infidelity, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and coping after disasters.
She also addresses problems like hoarding, impulsivity, isolation, and forgiveness. Shaneka practices in Mississippi and offers sessions in English. She supports online formats so people can fit therapy into busy schedules.
How Shaneka’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and working at the client’s pace. The therapist reflects what people share and follows their priorities to help them feel heard and understood. This approach suits people who need space to name their own goals and pace change slowly.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting, which can help with anxiety, depression, and relationship patterns.
EMDR helps people who carry intense trauma memories by guiding them through a structured process to reduce emotional intensity. It can be a useful option for those who have not found relief through talk therapy alone.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan based on what works best. Clients are invited to give feedback so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online formats make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer sessions, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing check-ins between meetings. These options provide flexibility to match schedules and comfort levels.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English