About Shakila
Shakila Foster is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She welcomes conversations about self-esteem, motivation, and confidence. Her approach is steady and direct, aimed at helping people find manageable steps forward.
Shakila draws on eight years of practice in New York. She often meets people who are worn down by caregiving or compassion fatigue. She also supports those dealing with serious medical concerns like cancer, chronic illness, fertility challenges, and pregnancy-related mood changes.
Background and approach
In sessions she creates a calm space for honest talk without judgment. She works with each person to set small, realistic goals and to build coping skills for stressful moments. The focus is on what helps in day-to-day life, not on complex theory.
Shakila also addresses issues around relationships, jealousy, infidelity, and isolation by helping clients clarify values and boundaries. She offers help with grief, hospice and end-of-life questions, and forgiveness work in ways that respect each person’s pace. People who seek meaning or direction find practical support for life purpose and young adult concerns.
For parents and those experiencing pregnancy or postpartum changes she provides gentle guidance aimed at rebuilding confidence and self-love. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Shakila works with each person to create a plan that fits their routine and goals.
Approaches to healing online and how they help
Shakila uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skill-building and emotional processing. One common approach she uses teaches concrete coping skills for stress and anxiety, such as breath work, activity planning, and breaking problems into smaller steps; this helps when day-to-day overwhelm gets in the way of functioning.Another strand concentrates on grief and loss, offering guided conversations that help people name what they are feeling and find ways to carry painful memories while still engaging in life. This work often includes pacing the process and identifying small actions that honor what’s lost.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shakila will discuss options with each person, try methods that fit their goals, and adjust as needed based on progress and comfort. The plan is shaped around the client’s needs rather than a fixed formula.
Online therapy formats give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when deeper connection helps, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter updates or moments when writing feels easier. These choices make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English