About Shakira
Shakira Thomas is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Tennessee. She brings seven years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, anger, depression, and relationship struggles. She frames clients as the experts on their lives and aims to support practical steps forward.
Her approach centers on listening first and then working together on clear goals. She uses evidence-informed methods to help people cope with overwhelming emotions and daily pressures.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on identifying useful tools and small changes that can make life feel more manageable. Common concerns she addresses include attachment and abandonment issues, communication problems, codependency, and challenges around commitment or control. She also helps people facing family of origin issues, divorce or separation, caregiver stress, and questions about fatherhood and forgiveness.
Shakira blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness practices. She introduces questions and exercises that help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try different responses. Motivational interviewing is used when someone is weighing change and needs help clarifying what matters most.
Sessions are conducted in English and offered through a range of online formats. People who want to begin are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability. The goal is steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Shakira regularly uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, collaborative space where the person sets goals and the therapist listens without judgment. This approach helps when someone needs support naming their priorities and deciding what matters most in change.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT to help people spot and test unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT can be useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and repetitive worry that interferes with daily life.
Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and adjust approaches based on a person's needs, goals, and preferences. This is a collaborative process that may combine elements from several approaches over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a shorter break or when lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat or text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or staying connected between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to continue therapy from different locations and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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