About Shakita
Shakita Stewart is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida. She has 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem challenges. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Shakita adapts conversations and treatment plans to fit each person's situation. She uses practical tools to address everyday problems like panic attacks, mood shifts, and communication breakdowns. She also helps people working through life changes such as divorce, pregnancy and childbirth, or financial stress.
How Shakita works
Her work includes attention to attachment and abandonment concerns, impulsivity, and finding life purpose. She supports men and women facing social anxiety, relationship strain, or post-traumatic stress. Shakita also helps people build self-love and cope with intense emotions.
In sessions she draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. Those approaches guide focused conversations and concrete strategies rather than general advice. The goal is to leave sessions with clear steps to try between meetings.
Shakita encourages small, steady changes. She frames therapy as a collaborative effort and adjusts pacing to what each person needs. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to provide steady support through the process.
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What Shakita works with
The areas below are the ones Shakita selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Shakita uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns that fuel anxiety and mood problems. CBT focuses on small experiments and practical skills to reduce panic, manage worry, and improve daily routines.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to explore a person’s own reasons for change and boost motivation. This approach is useful when someone feels stuck or uncertain about taking the next step toward goals. Together these methods aim to create clear, achievable plans and build momentum.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shakita will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then adapt methods to fit what feels most useful. That collaborative process helps shape session focus and pacing so therapy matches the person's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is good for longer conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can support brief check-ins and ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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