About Shashana
Shashana Carter is a licensed clinician who uses person-centered care to support people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She holds MD, LCSW-C, and LICSW credentials and practices in Maryland. Her manner is warm, respectful, and direct, focused on listening and honest feedback.
She draws on client-centered therapy to create a space where people feel heard. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps clients can use between meetings to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Shashana has six years of clinical experience working in professional settings and community programs. Her background includes roles in social services, probation, and opioid maintenance settings where she learned to set realistic goals with people facing complex challenges.
She helps people work through a wide range of concerns such as grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, bipolar disorder, and compulsive behaviors. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, career stress, body image and eating-related issues, and compassion fatigue. Her style emphasizes collaboration.
She listens first, then offers straightforward observations and skills to try. Therapy can include short-term problem solving or longer-term work on patterns that get in the way of feeling better.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following the person's pace. In an online session this means the therapist prioritizes understanding the person's concerns and helps them set goals that feel right. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, works by identifying patterns in thoughts and behaviors and testing small changes. Online CBT often includes homework, thought records, and practical exercises that can be done between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will decide whether to use more client-centered work, CBT tools, or a mix based on needs and preferences.
Online formats offer flexibility in how people meet. Video calls let the therapist and client work visually and practice skills together. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or the person prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, quick coaching, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue steady work on stress, ADHD, relationships, and other concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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