Shantele Weaver , LPC, LCMHC

Shantele Weaver is a licensed counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, addiction concerns, career strain, and compassion fatigue. She writes plainly and listens closely to each person's priorities. Shantele works with straightforward goals and practical steps to make daily life more manageable.

She uses a mix of approaches tailored to every person rather than a single method. Sessions focus on identifying what matters to the client, building small habits, and testing strategies that fit real life. Conversations emphasize strength, choice, and what the client wants to change.

Shantele has four years of professional experience and holds LPC and LCMHC credentials. Her background includes work across settings that address addiction, housing instability, and re-entry after incarceration. She has also supported people dealing with cognitive changes related to aging and hospice or end-of-life concerns.

In sessions she pulls from methods like acceptance and commitment techniques, cognitive behavioral ideas, motivational interviewing, existential questions, and client-centered listening. That lets her match the work to each person's needs instead of using one fixed approach. She explains options clearly and helps clients choose what feels most useful.

People who want practical tools, direct conversation, and a focus on personal values may find her style a good fit. Shantele practices in North Carolina and offers several online formats for working together.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people clarify what matters most and take small steps in that direction while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, stress, and problems that get in the way of a valued life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, addiction-related habits, and mood challenges. Motivational Interviewing uses collaborative conversation to increase motivation for change and helps people move through ambivalence about difficult decisions or behaviors.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily routines and then suggest which methods to try first. That decision is made together and can be adjusted as progress is tracked.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make therapy easier to fit into work, caregiving schedules, or limited travel situations.