About Shonta
Shonta Harper is a licensed therapist who helps people facing relationship challenges, stress, anxiety, grief, and issues with self-esteem. She works with concerns like intimacy, parenting strain, addictions, gender dysphoria, and career questions. Shonta practices from Georgia and brings a decade of experience as an LPC, Licensed Professional Counselor, and LCMHC, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor.
Her sessions focus on clearer communication and practical problem solving. She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and helps them try different ways of responding.
How Shonta works
Sessions are aimed at building resilience, improving sleep and coping, and addressing trauma and compassion fatigue when those arise. Shonta uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and tailors each approach to the person's needs. She supports people dealing with codependency, control issues, jealousy, infidelity, and questions about life purpose.
She also addresses aging and caregiver stress, as well as concerns common among veterans and those exploring identity. Her style is warm and straightforward. She helps clients set realistic goals, practice new skills, and track progress over time.
Conversations move from understanding what happened to planning steps that fit daily life. Shonta values cultural context and a trauma-aware stance in her work. She helps clients connect with their own strengths and create clear strategies for change.
Many people come away with better communication, more self-love, and a clearer sense of direction.
What Shonta works with
The areas below are the ones Shonta selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Shonta uses evidence-based techniques that focus on skills people can use in daily life. One approach emphasizes improving communication and problem solving so people can reduce recurring conflicts and feel heard. Another focuses on trauma-informed strategies that help process difficult memories and reduce their impact on current relationships and mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and life situation. That might mean trying one approach for a while and adjusting as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth situations, and messaging or chat can support shorter check-ins and skill practice between longer sessions. These options help people access care around work, caregiving, or travel commitments.
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