About Shaneka
Shaneka Boles is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder. She supports those struggling with relationship strain, parenting challenges, anger, low self-esteem, trauma, and major life changes. Shaneka practices from Mississippi and speaks English.
Shaneka keeps sessions straightforward and grounded. She focuses on listening first and building trust so people feel heard. Conversations are meant to be practical and paced to each person's comfort level.
Background and approach
Her approach includes client-centered work that follows the person's own goals and pace. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behavior patterns. For trauma-related concerns she incorporates EMDR to address distressing memories when appropriate.
Shaneka draws on eight years of professional experience to guide short- and longer-term work. She helps people develop coping skills for everyday stress as well as tools for stronger relationships and improved mood. Expect clear steps and gentle encouragement toward change.
People often come to her feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. Shaneka aims to make the process manageable by breaking concerns into small, doable actions and checking in on progress. She supports clients through crises and gradual life adjustments alike.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Shaneka uses client-centered work to follow each person's priorities and pace, focusing on listening and building a practical plan based on what matters most to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and everyday stress. She also incorporates Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma-related symptoms when that approach seems appropriate and agreed upon.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shaneka will talk through options and adjust methods based on a client's needs, goals, and preferences. She aims to match tools to what a person wants to work on and to check in regularly about how the work is going.
Online therapy provides flexible ways to stay connected. Video calls let people meet face to face for deeper work, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, live chat offers quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports short reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel while focusing on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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