About Shaniqua
Shaniqua Smith is a licensed clinical social worker who built her practice after training and working in hospital settings, nonprofits, and independent practice. She uses five years of experience to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and life changes. Her work blends warmth with straightforward guidance so clients can tackle immediate problems and build lasting skills.
She focuses on real-life problems like relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, and the impact of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
She also supports people navigating identity and health-related concerns such as LGBT issues, HIV and AIDS, pregnancy and childbirth, and ADHD. Sessions aim to identify patterns that keep people stuck and to strengthen coping tools for everyday life. Her approach mixes several evidence-informed therapies, chosen to fit each person’s needs.
Sessions are conversational and practical, with an emphasis on what the client wants to change. She pays attention to small details and remembers what matters between sessions, bringing both energy and humor to the work. Shaniqua created an outdoor program called Hike & Heal that pairs mindfulness and movement for people who find nature helpful.
Whether meeting remotely or planning in-person work, she helps clients set realistic goals and practice skills that transfer into daily routines. Shaniqua holds the Georgia LCSW credential and the CSW designation and practices in Georgia. Her style is collaborative, direct, and kind, aimed at helping people feel more balanced, confident, and able to move forward.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and trust. Online work using attachment ideas can help people notice relational patterns and practice new ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In video or chat sessions CBT helps people challenge unhelpful thoughts and try small, concrete behavior changes between meetings.Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. From there she recommends strategies and adjusts the plan as work progresses so clients get the right mix of support and skills practice.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief updates, daily skill prompts, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing life demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English