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Shakirah Ewell, LPC

Based in New Jersey Online sessions

Practical therapy for stress and parenting challenges

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Years in practice
9
Credentials
LPC
Licensed in
New Jersey
Languages
English
Focus
Stress, Anxiety
Focus
Relationship issues
Focus
Family conflicts
About

About Shakirah

Shakirah Ewell is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are navigating stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and major life transitions. Her work often centers on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more in control.

Shakirah uses straightforward, evidence-informed approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods and dialectical behavior strategies alongside client-centered care.

Background and approach

Sessions emphasize identifying unhelpful thought patterns, building everyday coping skills, and finding small behavior changes that make life easier. She aims to match techniques to what the individual finds useful and realistic. Her background includes substantial experience supporting women through postpartum concerns, pregnancy and childbirth, and other women’s issues.

She also assists people facing blended family challenges, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, workplace strain, and money-related anxiety. Shakirah pays attention to cultural context and the pressures that can come from identity and community. In sessions she combines practical skill-building with space to talk through feelings.

People meet to set clear goals, test out new ways of responding, and check progress over time. The focus is on usable strategies that fit a client's daily life. She offers sessions via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.

Those interested are invited to use the platform's matching process to begin scheduling and find a format that fits their routine.

Focus areas and approaches

What Shakirah works with

Everything Shakirah lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Shakirah helps people with.

Approaches Shakirah lists

Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.

Online support

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to a person's concerns without judgment. It helps people feel heard and supports them in finding their own solutions to parenting stress, relationship strain, and life transitions.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people identify unhelpful thinking, try new behaviors, and build routines that reduce anxiety and improve mood.

Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication. It can be helpful for people who want tools for staying calm during high-stress moments.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shakirah collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and daily life, and she adjusts the plan as needs change. The process is practical and goal-oriented rather than one-size-fits-all.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat supports a quick check-in, and messaging can fit between work or childcare demands. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around a busy schedule.
Questions

Questions people ask about Shakirah

What kinds of concerns does she address?

Shakirah works with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting issues, self-esteem, career strain, ADHD concerns, and life changes including postpartum and pregnancy-related challenges.

What is her therapeutic style like?

She uses a practical, down-to-earth approach that focuses on skill building, changing unhelpful thoughts, and trying small behavior changes between sessions.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has nine years of experience as a clinician working with adults on a range of mood, stress, and life-transition concerns.

What credentials and region should I know about?

She holds the LPC credential and practices in New Jersey; the profile lists New Jersey as her location and shows her LPC credential.

Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?

Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are offered?

She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.

How does cost and payment work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

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