About Shawnene
Shawnene Weeks is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Louisiana who helps adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and ADHD-related struggles. She focuses on practical skills that make day-to-day life easier and on restoring steadier moods and clearer thinking. Her style is warm and straightforward so people can talk honestly about what feels hard right now.
Shawnene draws on several evidence-based methods to tailor care to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to break unhelpful thinking patterns and acceptance-based strategies to help people live with difficult feelings without getting stuck. Mindfulness and skills from dialectical approaches are woven into sessions to improve emotion regulation and reduce reactivity. Clients describe goals about getting through life transitions, managing impulses, and improving relationships.
Shawnene also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, adoption and foster care issues, and work or career concerns. She pays attention to identity and cultural factors, including LGBT concerns and women’s issues, when helping someone set priorities for therapy. With eight years of practice, she blends practical coaching with therapy to build routines, coping plans, and clearer decision-making.
Sessions are geared toward concrete steps a person can try between meetings. Shawnene aims to help people feel more capable managing life’s ups and downs. She offers sessions in English for residents of Louisiana and works through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on client preference and goals.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Shawnene commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Client-Centered Therapy in her work. ACT focuses on helping people clarify their values and take actions that matter to them, even when feelings are uncomfortable; this can help with motivation and moving forward during life changes. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and gives practical exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits for anxiety and depression. Client-centered therapy centers the person’s experience, offering empathy and nonjudgmental listening to help someone feel heard and to build their own insights.Picking the right approach is a team effort. Shawnene will discuss the options and try methods that fit the person’s goals, preferences, and day-to-day realities. She adjusts techniques as therapy progresses so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video is good for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and text messaging can support ongoing reminders and brief coaching between longer sessions. These options increase flexibility while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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