Dr. Shakena Mabry, LCSW

Dr. Shakena Mabry is a licensed clinical social worker with over 12 years of experience. She practices in Maryland and draws on a range of therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and life changes. She approaches sessions with respect for each person’s story and strengths. Taking a first step toward change is often hard, and she offers steady support along the way.

Her work focuses on practical skills and clear goals. She uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and take action. Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques may be used to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills when needed.

Dr. Mabry also incorporates client-centered principles, so the person’s priorities guide each session. For people affected by trauma and abuse, she can bring approaches that address post-traumatic stress reactions and painful memories while attending to safety and pacing.

She helps with a broad range of concerns including relationship strain, parenting stress, addiction struggles, grief, career uncertainty, self-esteem, and multicultural issues. Other areas she works with include ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue for caregivers.

Sessions are delivered in a way that centers the person’s goals and daily life. People who choose to work with her complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule based on availability. Costs vary by location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are strong. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with behavioral experiments to change mood and behavior; it is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and social worries. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, is an approach that works with distressing memories and post-traumatic stress reactions by combining focused attention and guided processing.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Mabry will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts pacing and tools over time so the plan fits what the person wants to achieve.

Practical benefits of online therapy include easier scheduling and the ability to fit sessions into a busy week. Because session formats are not specified here, confirm the available session options before booking. Online work still allows focused skill practice, homework between sessions, and steady follow-up that can help people keep progress moving forward.