About Shanekka
Shanekka Brown-Johnson offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life changes. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - who aims to make therapy practical and understandable for everyday life.
Background and approach
She draws on 14 years of experience in settings such as residential mental health, substance abuse treatment, schools, and shelters. That background means she has worked with people facing trauma, co-occurring substance concerns, and major life transitions.
Her work often focuses on mood and anxiety disorders, panic, and struggles with self-worth. In session she uses clear techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy alongside motivational interviewing and client-centered methods.
Sessions typically include setting simple goals, practicing skills to manage strong feelings, and shaping choices around values. She explains tools in plain language and helps people try them between meetings.
She also pays attention to cultural context and identity. That can mean talking about how race, gender, or background affects stress, relationships, and self-image.
People who have lived through abandonment, adoption issues, caregiving strain, or family-of-origin hurts often work on those themes. Shanekka practices in California and offers care in English.
Her approach aims to meet people where they are and to build steady coping skills for real life.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and move toward actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and when life changes make decisions feel hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. It is commonly used for panic, mood disorders, and stress by teaching practical coping skills and thought strategies.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. That may mean trying a skill-focused CBT exercise one week and a values-based ACT practice the next, then adjusting based on what helps most.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send short updates, try brief coping tools, or keep a steady check-in between longer sessions. These formats offer flexibility to fit appointments into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping therapy consistent.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California, Alaska
- Languages
- English