About Shatina
Shatina Barr is a New York licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are coping with trauma, depression, low self-esteem, family conflict, and attention-related concerns such as ADHD. Her style is warm and direct, and she aims to make the first step feel manageable for people seeking support.
Her background includes long-term clinical work in settings that addressed trauma and mood concerns.
Background and approach
She uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to help people talk through painful memories and reduce the hold those experiences have on daily life. Sessions often center on building skills for emotional regulation and improving communication patterns within relationships. In sessions she prioritizes a nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be named and examined.
She helps people break problems into small, workable steps and practices concrete strategies between meetings. This approach is aimed at reducing overwhelm and increasing everyday functioning. She also supports people working through guilt, shame, forgiveness, and feelings of isolation.
Caregiver stress, attachment concerns, and impulsivity are common topics she addresses with practical tools and clear goals. Many clients find value in having a steady plan and a clinician who focuses on concrete progress. Shatina works with adults in New York and conducts sessions in English.
Her practice offers a mix of conversation, skill-building, and collaborative problem solving to help people move toward clearer purpose and improved mood.
Trauma-focused care and flexible online sessions
Trauma-Focused Therapy is used to help people make sense of distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity. It usually involves paced conversations about past experiences, learning ways to manage strong feelings, and practicing new coping skills for day-to-day life.In practice, sessions focus on grounding, emotional regulation, and improving communication patterns that were affected by trauma. The therapist works collaboratively to set goals, prioritize which memories or patterns to address, and choose tools that match the client's needs and pace.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will partner with each client to identify which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they check progress and adjust the plan if something is not helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain continuity when in-person visits are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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