Shanterica Swan, LMHC

Shanterica Swan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She has three years of experience working in outpatient, residential, correctional, and virtual settings. Shanterica focuses on offering clear, practical help for people who feel overwhelmed, anxious, or emotionally drained despite appearing high-functioning. She supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, and mood concerns. She also helps with anger, self-esteem, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes. Additional areas of focus include divorce and separation, eating and food-related issues, guilt and shame, impulsivity, life purpose, and women’s issues. Her style is straightforward and skills-oriented. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with client-centered techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and build healthier habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas and solution-focused strategies are used when the session needs concrete coping skills or a short-term plan. Sessions emphasize practical tools that can be used between meetings. Conversations are intended to be nonjudgmental and supportive while staying focused on what will make daily life more manageable. She works with clients to set realistic goals and track small changes over time. People who prefer a calm, task-oriented approach may find her helpful. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Language of service is English and international clients are not accepted.

How evidence-based approaches work online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience, helping them feel heard while they identify what matters most. This approach is useful for building trust and guiding personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns in daily life. CBT often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress.

Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they pick or combine methods and adjust them as progress is made, so the plan fits the person's life and needs.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family schedules and allow brief problem-focused sessions or longer weekly meetings depending on what is needed.