About Shakira
Shakira Maldonado offers focused support for adults who are struggling with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, low self-esteem, depression, or big life changes. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida and aims to create a calm, approachable space for people to talk through what feels overwhelming. Sessions begin with practical goals.
Shakira helps clients build coping skills that can be used during a hard day. She emphasizes clear steps, such as emotion regulation tools, communication strategies, and routines to reduce stress.
Background and approach
Her work draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and mindfulness practices. Those methods are used to change unhelpful thinking patterns and to help people notice and respond differently to strong emotions. Treatment plans are shaped to fit each person’s situation rather than fitted to a single script.
Shakira has three years of experience in individual therapy. She often focuses on attachment and relationship concerns, body image, codependency, and issues that follow separation or loss. She also supports people coping with caregiver stress, feelings of emptiness, and forgiveness work.
Therapy sessions can include talk-based problem solving and skill building. The aim is to leave people with tools they can use between sessions. Shakira strives to make progress feel steady and manageable for people facing everyday pressures.
Evidence-based methods for online care
Shakira uses a blend of techniques grounded in research. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thought patterns, and then replaces them with actions that support better moods and clearer choices. Mindfulness-based strategies teach simple attention exercises that reduce reactivity and help people notice feelings before they drive behavior.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shakira will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals and life situation, adjusting techniques as progress is made. Clients and therapist set priorities together and try practical tools to see what fits best.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video is useful for fuller conversation and body language, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support brief check-ins or homework between appointments. These options aim to give flexibility while keeping focus on steady skill building and problem solving.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York, Florida
- Languages
- English