About Shanita
Shanita Burgess is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and burnout. She focuses on practical steps that reduce overwhelming thoughts and tiredness. Her work is straightforward and aimed at helping people regain energy and forward momentum in daily life.
Shanita draws on methods that help clients spot thoughts that cause fatigue and defeat. She uses clear, simple exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and to build new coping habits.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with attention to what feels doable between meetings. She also supports people facing grief, career strain, compassion fatigue, and identity concerns such as LGBT issues and gender dysphoria. When needed she addresses more specific challenges like attachment issues, codependency, and difficulties after separation or divorce.
Her approach centers on helping each person set small, practical goals that add up over time. Over 11 years she has worked with clients who want to move from surviving to thriving. She blends client-centered listening with behavior-focused tools so clients can test changes in real life.
The emphasis is on building skills that reduce overwhelm and increase daily satisfaction. People who choose Shanita should expect a collaborative process. She invites clients to identify priorities, try concrete strategies, and adjust plans as progress is made.
The work aims to restore a sense of agency and ease in everyday routines.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Client-centered work focuses on the person first. In a session this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the client set goals that matter to them. This approach helps when someone feels stuck or uncertain about what they want to change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. Online CBT sessions include identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them with experiments, and practicing new responses to reduce anxiety or low mood. This can be especially useful for stress, phobias, and burnout.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving coping. Practicing grounding, distress-tolerance, and emotion-regulation skills can reduce overwhelm and impulsive reactions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted as progress is tracked so the approach stays relevant.
Online sessions offer flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework, or when writing helps organize thoughts. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and practice skills between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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