About Shawnte'
Shawnte' Gates is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. She brings ten years of experience helping adults navigate stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship struggles. Her approach is warm and supportive, and she works with people to set clear goals and practical steps.
Shawnte' begins by listening to where a person is right now. She adapts her approach to fit a client's culture, values, and everyday life.
Background and approach
That can mean reviewing coping skills, practicing mindfulness, or using problem-solving tools that fit daily routines. She often uses client-centered work to make sessions feel collaborative. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and practice small behavior changes.
Mindfulness tools are introduced to help with stress, sleep, and emotional regulation. Shawnte' has experience across settings such as residential, in-home, and outpatient care. That background shapes how she helps people build routines, manage mood shifts, and handle career or life transitions.
Clients can expect straightforward skill-building and encouragement along the way. Her style is empathetic and nonjudgmental. She focuses on concrete goals and steps so progress is visible.
The aim is practical growth - improving daily functioning, reducing distressing symptoms, and helping people make decisions that match their values.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Shawnte' often uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a collaborative space where the person directs much of the work. That approach emphasizes listening, respect for a person's values, and tailoring the pace to what feels right. It helps when someone needs a supportive place to sort priorities and decisions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. CBT gives simple tools for anxiety, mood shifts, sleep problems, and patterns that affect daily functioning. These tools are practiced in short steps so they fit into a busy week.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past, then recommend methods to try. That plan is adjusted over time based on what is most useful for the individual.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching-style prompts, or when someone prefers shorter written exchanges. Together these options offer flexibility to fit therapy into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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