About Shanteria
Shanteria Onyemem is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. She offers practical support for stress, low self-esteem, anger, grief, addictions, and major life changes. Sessions are designed to be straightforward and focused on steps clients can use day to day.
Her style is warm and direct. She listens first, then works with each person to set clear goals. Clients learn coping skills, new ways to handle emotions, and ways to change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
The aim is to make progress that feels real and noticeable. Shanteria draws on several established therapy approaches. She uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person in the room.
Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify and shift thoughts that fuel anxiety or depression. Emotionally-focused ideas guide work on relationship and intimacy issues. Her background includes 15 years of clinical experience and practice in Texas as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor.
That experience informs a practical approach to problems like burnout, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and workplace strain. She pays attention to cultural background and personal identity when shaping the work. People often come for help with communication problems, codependency, body image, and sleep difficulties.
Sessions also address more complex concerns such as bipolar mood patterns, attachment wounds, and the fallout from domestic violence. The work moves at a pace set by each client and focuses on building lasting skills.
Practical therapy approaches that work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the client's perspective and priorities. It involves listening closely and shaping sessions around what feels most important, which helps with self-esteem, grief, and big life decisions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and change habits that get in the way of daily life. Emotionally-focused therapy helps people understand and shift patterns in important relationships by naming emotions and changing how they respond to one another.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. That might mean mixing client-centered listening with CBT skills or using emotionally-focused ideas to address intimacy and attachment concerns. The choice changes as progress happens and needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use body language and visual cues, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging offer short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules and to choose whichever format helps someone engage most effectively.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English