- Direct and caring
- Skill focused
- Goal oriented
About Shakea
Shakea Roper is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 14 years of experience helping people manage hard moments. She brings a straightforward, compassionate approach shaped by personal experience as a single mom navigating family, work, and community challenges. Shakea aims to create a calm space where people can speak honestly and start making practical changes that matter to daily life.
She focuses on mood and anxiety concerns, including depression, bipolar mood concerns, panic, and racing thoughts. She also supports people facing stress, grief, addiction, relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related struggles. Her practice includes attention to blended family issues, codependency, communication problems, and money or financial stress.
Shakea uses practical, evidence-based tools in sessions. She leans on client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace, cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking, and dialectical behavior strategies for emotional regulation. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused work help set doable goals and keep progress moving.
Her style is active and direct while staying caring and honest. Sessions typically include listening, learning a few concrete skills, and agreeing on small steps to try between meetings. She adapts the plan if something isn’t working so people keep moving forward.
Located in Missouri, Shakea works with adults managing life transitions and emotional challenges. Her aim is to help people find relief, clearer thinking, and practical next steps they can use right away.
She focuses on mood and anxiety concerns, including depression, bipolar mood concerns, panic, and racing thoughts. She also supports people facing stress, grief, addiction, relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related struggles. Her practice includes attention to blended family issues, codependency, communication problems, and money or financial stress.
Shakea uses practical, evidence-based tools in sessions. She leans on client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace, cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking, and dialectical behavior strategies for emotional regulation. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused work help set doable goals and keep progress moving.
Her style is active and direct while staying caring and honest. Sessions typically include listening, learning a few concrete skills, and agreeing on small steps to try between meetings. She adapts the plan if something isn’t working so people keep moving forward.
Located in Missouri, Shakea works with adults managing life transitions and emotional challenges. Her aim is to help people find relief, clearer thinking, and practical next steps they can use right away.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.