- Years in practice
- 10
- Credentials
- LPC, LCMHC
- Licensed in
- Georgia, Utah
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Shonta
Shonta Harper is a licensed counselor who helps people facing parenting challenges, relationship struggles, stress, and anxiety. She uses a practical, compassionate style to guide clients toward clearer choices and steadier daily routines. Shonta holds LPC and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor credentials and draws on ten years of experience in Georgia.
Her approach centers on understanding what’s happening now and finding small, doable changes. Sessions often focus on communication skills, managing strong emotions, and rebuilding self-esteem.
Background and approach
Shonta also addresses sleep problems, addictive behaviors, grieving, and life transitions with straightforward tools parents can use between sessions. She pays attention to identity concerns, LGBT issues, gender dysphoria, and trauma history when these are part of someone’s story. That work includes helping people set boundaries, cope with compassion fatigue, and explore life purpose.
Career concerns, ADHD-related struggles, and caregiver stress are also within her range of focus. Shonta blends a trauma-informed, culturally aware perspective with practical coaching techniques. She helps clients break big problems into smaller steps and tries out strategies together in-session.
The aim is to build stronger self-understanding and more reliable ways of responding under pressure. People who connect with her can expect direct conversation, clear goals, and follow-up suggestions to try between appointments. Her practice supports varied concerns including grief, depression, social anxiety, and intimacy-related issues while keeping sessions grounded and usable.
What Shonta works with
Everything Shonta lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Shonta helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
How evidence-based methods translate to online care
Shonta offers evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. Cognitive-behavioral approaches help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and tackle depression. A trauma-informed approach helps people process difficult experiences at a pace that feels manageable while building coping skills for strong emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting strategies over time so the treatment fits the person’s life and parenting demands.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different rhythms. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or people who prefer not to use video. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and daily routines, and they keep the focus on practical steps you can use between sessions.
Questions people ask about Shonta
What parenting and family concerns are addressed?
She supports individual parents with parenting stress, communication problems, family conflict, and caregiver strain. The focus is on practical strategies parents can use day to day.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Sessions are practical and direct with a trauma-informed, culturally aware stance. Shonta focuses on clear goals, skill building, and small steps between appointments.
How much experience does she have?
She has ten years of clinical experience working with issues such as anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and identity concerns. That background informs a pragmatic approach to change.
What credentials and region apply?
She holds LPC and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor credentials and practices in Georgia. The profile lists GA LPC and UT LCMHC as the credential details.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she does accept international clients. Readers should assume English is the language used for therapy.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Those options let people choose what fits their schedule and daily routine.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription model. Subscriptions can be canceled at any time.
What steps are needed to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire. Then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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