About Shanterica
Shanterica Swan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida who has worked across outpatient, residential, correctional, and virtual settings. She brings three years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed despite appearing to manage day to day responsibilities. She helps people handle anxiety, depression, stress, and burnout with straightforward, practical strategies.
She also supports those facing mood concerns, difficulty with overthinking, and challenges with emotional regulation.
Background and approach
The work centers on building skills people can use between sessions. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. Sessions generally focus on identifying small, concrete changes that make daily life easier.
Clients can expect clear steps, skill practice, and check-ins on progress rather than abstract theory. Swan draws on approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach coping tools and emotion regulation skills. She also uses Client-Centered and Solution-Focused ideas to keep the work personal and goal-oriented.
People often seek her out for stress, anger, self-esteem, and trauma or abuse recovery, along with life transitions such as divorce or separation. She also addresses eating and food-related issues, guilt and shame, impulsivity, life purpose, mood disorders, self-love, and women's issues.
Approaches and online care that fit everyday life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and adapting to each person's unique needs. It aims to make people feel heard and to help them find their own answers, useful when someone needs a supportive space to sort through feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior. It teaches concrete techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and to practice new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and overthinking.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted as progress is made so the approach stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers a range of session formats to fit different routines. Video calls let people mirror in-person sessions when visual interaction helps. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a camera is not preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and skill practice easier between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and stay consistent with care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
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- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English