About Shantel
Shantel Westbrook is a Kansas-licensed counselor (LCP) with 20 years of professional experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, and building self-esteem. Parents reading on a phone can expect straightforward language and a calm presence when they reach out.
She helps people who are facing life changes and those struggling with motivation and confidence. Conversations emphasize practical steps and coping skills rather than clinical jargon. Shantel aims to make the room a place to say hard things and be heard without judgment.
Background and approach
Over two decades she has supported people dealing with grief, compassion fatigue, sleep problems, career uncertainty, and ADHD concerns. Her work also covers phobias, panic attacks, and mood challenges. Shantel brings steady experience to episodes that feel overwhelming.
She has additional experience with aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, communication problems, and end-of-life concerns. Substance use and recovery topics, including drug and alcohol addiction, are also part of her practice. Those facing midlife questions, emptiness, or a search for life purpose will find practical discussion and goal-focused planning.
Sessions are offered in English and can be adapted to phone, video, chat, or messaging formats. Shantel encourages small, doable steps and helps people notice progress along the way. Her approach centers on listening, clarifying goals, and trying strategies that fit each person’s daily life.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Shantel uses straightforward, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and build skills. One approach focuses on teaching concrete coping strategies for anxiety and panic - breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance. This can help with phobias and panic attacks by breaking problems into small, manageable steps. Another common technique emphasizes mood and behavior work to address depression and low motivation. This includes identifying unhelpful routines, setting small goals, and increasing activities that provide a sense of accomplishment. Those struggling with sleep, low energy, or emptiness often find this practical, action-focused work useful. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals, try strategies, and adjust what isn’t working. Together they choose tools that fit the person’s needs, daily life, and preferences rather than prescribing a single method. Online formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide short check-ins, quick coping reminders, or support between appointments. These options add flexibility so people can fit therapy into busy lives.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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