About Shanequa
Shanequa Palmer is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and relationship concerns. She uses straightforward talk and a calm presence to help clients name problems and try practical steps. Her approach is respectful and warm, and she encourages people who are nervous about starting therapy to take the first step.
Shanequa adapts sessions to each person’s needs. She works in English and brings four years of counseling experience in South Carolina to her practice.
Background and approach
Conversations are shaped around what matters most to the client, whether that is improving confidence or coping with life changes. She uses client-centered listening to make sure each person feels heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break down unhelpful thoughts and create concrete behavior changes.
Motivational Interviewing supports people who feel stuck and want to find reasons to change. Shanequa also supports a wide range of concerns such as trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting stresses, ADHD, and career transitions. She pays attention to family of origin issues, blended family challenges, and adoption and foster care topics when they come up.
In sessions she focuses on practical steps, clearer communication skills, and ways to manage strong emotions like anger. She helps people set realistic goals and follow them at a pace that fits their life.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the client's lead. Online sessions use that listening style to help people feel understood and to identify what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. In online meetings Shanequa works with clients to spot unhelpful thinking and practice small behavior changes that can reduce anxiety and lift mood.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. Through guided questions and gentle reflection, she helps clients increase motivation and commit to realistic next steps.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. She will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts techniques as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing encouragement. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English