About Shaterrika
Shaterrika Williams is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with 16 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for relationship strain, family conflict, low self-esteem, life transitions, and ADHD concerns. She aims to make starting therapy feel approachable and straightforward for worried parents and individuals.
Shaterrika centers sessions on the person in front of her. She treats each client as the expert on their own life and points out strengths they already have.
Background and approach
Conversations are direct and calm, with a focus on small, doable steps rather than long lists of tasks. Her background includes work with chronic pain, illness, and disability, as well as codependency, fertility struggles, veteran and armed forces issues, multicultural concerns, pregnancy and childbirth, and self-harm. That experience shapes an ability to speak plainly about practical obstacles and coping strategies.
In sessions she mixes client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral work and dialectical behavior ideas. That means clients both talk through their story and practice new skills for handling emotions and difficult moments. Sessions often include exercises to try between meetings so progress continues outside the room.
Shaterrika emphasizes partnership in therapy. She helps clients set steps that fit family life and real schedules. Her approach aims to build confidence, improve daily functioning, and reduce the stress in relationships and other challenging areas.
How her approaches translate to online care
Shaterrika draws from client-centered therapy to place the client's viewpoint first, listening closely and shaping sessions around each person's goals. That approach is useful for people who want a supportive space to talk through family tension, relationship worries, or ADHD-related daily struggles.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes. CBT exercises often include practical homework and short skill practices that fit well into video or text-based formats. Dialectical behavior therapy offers tools for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal interactions, with simple skills for distress tolerance, mindfulness, and emotion regulation that can be reviewed during calls or via messaging.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to emphasize based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. That plan can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls support face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging lets people share updates between meetings. These formats help fit therapy into busy family schedules and varied daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
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- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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