Shakea Roper , LCSW, LSCSW

Shakea Roper is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress, mood challenges, and life transitions. She brings a practical, down-to-earth approach shaped by years of real-life parenting and community experience. Sessions focus on honest conversation and finding workable steps forward. Shakea keeps sessions straightforward and goal-oriented. She listens carefully, points out unhelpful thinking patterns, and offers simple skills to try between meetings. When an approach isn't helping, she adjusts plans so work stays relevant. Her clinical interests include anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, panic, and ADHD. She also supports people dealing with addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Women's issues are a particular area of focus within her practice. Shakea also addresses relationship and family challenges such as communication problems, blended family issues, codependency, and commitment concerns. She works with difficulties that touch money, forgiveness, and emotional emptiness as well. She uses practical methods like client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies. Sessions are designed to leave people with clear next steps and skills they can use right away. Shakea is based in Missouri and provides services in English.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding your experience. The therapist follows your lead, reflects what she hears, and helps you name priorities so you feel heard and respected. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. It teaches simple ways to notice unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful ones, which can help with anxiety, depression, and panic. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotion and improving coping. It includes techniques for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shakea collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. If something doesn’t fit, she adjusts the plan together with the client. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls offer face-to-face interaction for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick support, reminders, or skill practice between sessions. These options provide flexibility so people can work on stress, mood, relationships, and recovery in ways that fit their day.