About Shakila
Shakila Foster is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. She offers calm, direct support for issues like low self-esteem, motivation, and compassion fatigue. Her tone is compassionate and practical for people making a first step toward change.
She creates an open space where clients can talk about hard feelings without judgment. Sessions focus on understanding what feels unmanageable and finding small, doable steps to feel steadier.
How Shakila works
Conversations are straightforward and grounded in everyday concerns rather than clinical jargon. With eight years of experience, she has supported people facing caregiving strain, chronic illness and pain, fertility and pregnancy-related struggles, and the emotional impacts of cancer. She also helps with themes such as forgiveness, infidelity, loneliness, jealousy, postpartum depression, and searching for life purpose.
Her work tends to center on practical coping skills, building self-love, and improving confidence over time. She meets people where they are and adapts approaches to what feels useful in the moment. Clients often leave with clearer next steps and tools to manage stressors between sessions.
Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.
What Shakila works with
The areas below are the ones Shakila selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online care
Shakila uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical coping and emotional processing. One common approach emphasizes skill-building for stress and anxiety through breathing, grounding, and stepwise behavior changes that reduce overwhelm. These skills help people manage daily triggers and increase overall calm.Another strand of her work focuses on grief and life transitions, using guided conversation to name difficult feelings and gradually find ways to carry loss without being undone by it. This method helps people move forward while honoring what they have lost.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will listen to your concerns, discuss options, and try methods that fit your goals and comfort level. Together you will adjust strategies as progress is made or needs change.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging lets you send thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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