Shakina Small is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 26 years of experience.
01About Shakina
Shakina Small is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 26 years of experience. She brings a direct and compassionate style to sessions. Parents reading on a phone will find short, clear explanations and practical steps in her approach.
She uses client-centered therapy to listen and build trust. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships.
Background and approach
Shakina has worked across many settings in Pennsylvania. That background includes work in schools, churches, residential programs, and community services. She has supported people coping with trauma, addiction, anger, and relationship breakups.
Her focus areas include relationship and family concerns, parenting, intimacy-related issues, and addiction. She also supports people facing identity and attachment questions, abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, and body image struggles. She helps with career stress, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
Sessions are straightforward and goal oriented. Conversations are practical and often include exercises or homework to try between meetings. Shakina aims to help people find clearer ways to handle emotions, make choices, and improve communication.
To start, she asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions. Work is collaborative and paced to the person’s needs.
02Credentials
- LPC (Pennsylvania)
- License PC016304 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1174260806 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Shakina lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Addictions
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Methods Shakina names
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
These are the methods Shakina names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. In practical terms this means sessions begin with the person's concerns and priorities, and the therapist follows the client's lead to set goals and pace.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT often includes brief exercises, thought records, and homework that people can review during video or messaging sessions to change unhelpful patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for regulating emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication. These skills can be practiced in short phone check-ins, live chat, or between-session text messages to reinforce learning.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and challenges. That may mean mixing approaches and adjusting as progress is made.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and skill practice easier between appointments. These options make it simpler to maintain continuity of care around busy schedules.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
She works with relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, addictions, intimacy issues, parenting, anger, career stress, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is empathetic and engaging, and can be direct when needed. She combines listening with practical tools and sometimes gives exercises to try between sessions.
What background does she bring to sessions?
She has 26 years of experience working in varied settings such as schools, residential programs, and community services. That history informs a flexible, experience-based approach.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Pennsylvania.
Are sessions available in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are offered?
Sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to get started?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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