About Shalonda
Shalonda Thornton-Knox is a licensed clinician in Maryland with 20 years of practice as a clinician. She holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, ADHD, and life changes.
She uses straightforward conversation to help people find what works for them. She treats adults and teens through one-on-one sessions and has experience addressing motivation, confidence, and mood concerns.
Background and approach
She emphasizes each person's strengths when planning next steps. Her style centers on collaboration. She listens to your story and helps you set small, doable goals.
Sessions include talking through problems, learning coping strategies, and practicing new habits between meetings. Shalonda also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, anger, career shifts, and bipolar mood concerns. She draws on two decades of clinical work to match approaches to the problem at hand rather than using the same method for everyone.
People who reach out will be guided through a clear process for getting started. The first step is a short questionnaire and then scheduling a session that fits the client's needs. Her practice offers a mix of formats to suit different schedules and preferences.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Shalonda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change. One common approach she uses helps people learn skills for managing anxiety and stress by breaking problems into smaller steps and practicing new behaviors. This method is useful for panic, ongoing worry, and daily stressors.Another approach centers on mood regulation and building routines to stabilize energy and motivation. It focuses on identifying triggers, creating predictable daily habits, and using short strategies to manage depressive or bipolar symptoms as they arise. This can help with motivation, low mood, and managing ups and downs.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust them over time based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video sessions are good for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let clients share thoughts between meetings and fit care into busy days.
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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