About Shaniqua
Shaniqua Shelton is a licensed clinical social worker with eight years of experience offering practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. She speaks plain language and focuses on helping people find manageable steps forward. Her approach centers on respect, sensitivity, and steady encouragement.
Shaniqua listens for what matters most to each person and tailors conversations to fit their needs. She helps people sort through relationship strain, work through the impact of trauma and abuse, and rebuild self-esteem and motivation.
Background and approach
She also addresses issues like anger, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and challenges tied to attachment and abandonment. Sessions often focus on clear goals and small, achievable changes. She talks through ways to cope with life transitions and to handle everyday stressors.
For people managing ADHD, she supports strategies for organization, focus, and reducing overwhelm without promising specific outcomes. Shaniqua works with young adults and others facing questions about identity, direction, and self-love. She pays attention to control issues that get in the way of progress and helps clients practice new habits that fit their lives.
Her style is warm and direct, offering both emotional support and concrete suggestions. Clients can expect a collaborative plan that changes as needs shift. Shaniqua encourages realistic steps, regular check-ins, and problem-solving that feels doable.
She aims to make therapy a place for steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Shaniqua uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear tools and real-world changes. One approach emphasizes building practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, teaching short exercises and routines people can use daily to reduce overwhelm. Another approach centers on improving self-esteem and relationships through step-by-step behavior changes and communication practice, which can help with attachment and abandonment concerns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She works with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That way therapy is tailored to the individual rather than following a fixed script.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this work. Video calls let the therapist and client connect face to face for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging offer quick check-ins, short skill practice, and a way to stay engaged between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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