About Supriya
Supriya Shanti is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, sleep problems, and life transitions. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with fifteen years of experience. Supriya writes plainly and focuses on helping people build coping skills and clearer thinking.
In sessions she often teaches tools for managing worry and improving sleep.
Background and approach
She works in a direct and compassionate way to help people notice patterns and try small changes. Messaging and short check-ins are part of her approach for some clients who want ongoing support between sessions. Supriya has a particular practice history with LGBT concerns, grief, and compassion fatigue alongside broader issues like low self-esteem and ADHD.
She helps people navigate relationship strain, family of origin issues, and life purpose questions without judgment. Supriya also supports people facing aging and caregiver stress or end-of-life planning conversations. Her methods draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and attachment-based ideas combined with mindfulness and narrative techniques.
Sessions often include skills practice, exploring how beliefs shape behavior, and building values-based goals. The therapist and client decide together what to try. Supriya works with adults from Vermont and nearby states and communicates in English.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short questionnaire and a scheduling step to match people with her style.
How her therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take small, values-based steps even when emotions are hard. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and getting unstuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns like worry or sleep disruption. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and can help with trust, communication, and connection issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they try approaches, track what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so the process stays collaborative and focused on practical change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation, phone calls can work when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and chat or text can support short check-ins and skill practice between sessions. These options offer flexibility to match communication style and schedule commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine
- Languages
- English