Shaquilla Jones

Shaquilla Jones is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, and women's issues. She brings ten years of experience and aims to make therapy a place for healing and clearer direction. Shaquilla presents herself as approachable and affirming, and she seeks to create space for clients to feel seen and heard.

Her work draws on person-centered care that tailors sessions to each individual. She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to challenge unhelpful thinking and from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to teach coping skills. Emotion-focused ideas guide conversations about attachment and intimacy, while acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) supports values-based choices.

Shaquilla’s background includes community mental health and sports psychology, which informs a flexible approach for different life stages and goals. She has experience helping young adults, student-athletes, and professionals, and she notes particular familiarity with concerns common to LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC clients. Her identity as a Black queer woman informs her aim to offer affirming care.

In sessions she emphasizes collaboration and practical steps. Clients can expect conversations that combine listening with skill-building and goal-setting. The focus is on manageable change - one step at a time.

People seeking help with trauma, sexual assault and abuse, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, ADHD, or career stress will find those topics within her stated focus. Shaquilla encourages people to look at therapy as a place for growth, not just crisis work.

Therapeutic approaches for online work and everyday life

Shaquilla draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical strategies to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. CBT often involves homework and stepwise practice to build new habits.

She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy, a values-based approach that helps people clarify what matters to them and take committed action despite uncomfortable feelings. ACT can be useful for life transitions, low motivation, and chronic worry.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Shaquilla will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts tools as progress is made.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session options before booking so you know what formats are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also let people try therapy from familiar settings and focus on skills practice between meetings. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and EMDR-informed or emotion-focused work to remote sessions depending on what the client and therapist agree will be most effective.