About Shakea
Shakea Roper is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 14 years of experience helping people navigate hard moments. She aims to make sessions straightforward and compassionate so clients can talk through what matters. Her approach emphasizes practical steps and real-life solutions you can use between meetings.
She draws on her own life experience to stay grounded and direct in sessions. Shakea focuses on common struggles like anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and ADHD-related challenges that affect daily routines.
Background and approach
She also addresses stress, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues tied to relationships and family dynamics. Shakea uses methods that prioritize the person's goals. She often works with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and change unhelpful thoughts.
She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and Client-Centered techniques to keep the work focused on each person’s needs. In practical terms, sessions are about small, doable steps. Shakea listens closely, helps people reframe problems, and suggests strategies to manage panic, mood swings, or overwhelming stress.
She also supports those working through addictions, codependency, financial stress, or communication problems. Her style is active and direct while remaining empathetic. People who want clear tools, honest feedback, and a partner who will pivot when something isn’t working may find this approach helpful.
She practices in Missouri and conducts online sessions using multiple formats.
How her therapeutic approaches work online
Shakea commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and build practical coping strategies for anxiety, panic, and mood problems. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and working at the client’s pace to set goals that feel meaningful.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when strong emotions or impulsive behaviors get in the way. DBT techniques teach concrete skills for regulating intense feelings, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without acting on it. Together these approaches are chosen to match the person’s goals and daily challenges.
Shakea sees finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and how they respond to different strategies, then adjust the plan as needed. The collaboration makes it easier to try tools and pivot when something isn’t helping.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video works well for in-depth conversations and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a shorter touchpoint fits a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota, Utah, Pennsylvania, Nevada
- Languages
- English
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