Services — Shanekwa Pruitt

If you are having trouble grasping, understanding, or dealing with trauma or a recent life change, I have specialized in these areas since the beginning of my career and can help.

If you are struggling to find self-love, your true identity, or growth, I offer a safe space to explore these aspects and more.

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THERAPY CAN HELP

Whether you have experienced loss, are trying to overcome life’s curveballs, or desire to truly know yourself, therapy can help.

If you are looking for a refuge from loss, a place to process your emotions, as well as
heal from reproductive, perinatal, and family building issues, I can help.

What we do

Shanekwa Pruitt, LMFT assists adolescents, individuals, couples, and families seeking mental health psychotherapy to enhance relationships, process experiences, work through grief/loss, and improve overall mental health.

I provide counseling services to those ready to make and take action steps toward change. With experience addressing a myriad of mental health related issues, I work to help clients explore, understand, and define challenges.

Counseling can target unresolved or ongoing family of origin issues, dissatisfaction in relationships, and conflict between parent and child. Moreover, the day-to-day challenges of life and its transitions can be of focus if you are a teenager approaching adulthood, young adult with newfound independence, couple considering marriage, postpartum parent, or survivor of trauma.

Shanekwa Pruitt, LMFT also welcomes those seeking to grow in the area of identity. We can discuss “real issues” like self-esteem, gender, sexuality, race, and the balance of personal/professional roles.

Supporting clients with compassion and respect while providing quality and competent services.

Teletherapy

Providing the flexibility and convenience of teletherapy. All appointments take place in the comfort and privacy of your own home. Evening and weekend options are available to accommodate your active life and busy schedule.

Similar to Zoom or Facetime, my virtual therapy platform uses encryption to ensure that your information remains private.

In addition to the flexibility, consistency, and accessibility that online therapy can offer, this form of session may be of benefit if you:

• Live in an area where there are no specialty provider options

• Have difficulty getting to appointments due to an active life, work schedule, or childcare

• Would like a longer session than what your insurance will allow

• Are interested in couples counseling, but are in two different locations

Note: Due to licensing, online therapy sessions can only be with those who live in California.

Walk and Talk Therapy

SAN DIEGO AREA

Walk and Talk Therapy is an intervention that combines counseling, walking, and the outdoors. As mind and body are engaged, both heal and change.

Walk and Talk Therapy offers great benefits:

Less intimidating than face-to-face ‘talk therapy’
Being in nature is meditative and grounding
Increases physical activity thus reducing anxiety, depression, and stress
Increases better sleep, levels of confidence, and self-esteem
Promotes symbolic metaphor for forward life movement
Ideal when infants or small children are in tow

THERAPY APPROACHES

+ ATTACHMENT BASED

Attachment-based therapy applies interventions and approaches based on attachment theory, which explains how the relationship a parent has with its child influences development.

+ COACHING

Life coaching is an increasingly popular profession that focuses on helping individuals realize their goals in work and in life.

+ COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL (CBT)

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) stresses the role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. CBT is based on the belief that thoughts, rather than people or events, cause our negative feelings. It has been clinically proven to help clients in a relatively short amount of time with a wide range of challenges, including depression and anxiety.

+ EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED (EFT)

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an approach to therapy that helps clients identify their emotions. It also helps clients learn to explore, experience, understand, and manage them.

+ FAMILY SYSTEMS

Family Systems therapists view problems within the family as the result not of particular persons' behaviors, but of the family's group dynamic. The family is seen as a complex system having its own language, roles, rules, beliefs, needs and patterns. The therapist helps each individual member understand how their childhood family operated, their role in that system, and how that experience has shaped their role in the current family.

+ PERSON-CENTERED

Person-centered therapy uses a non-authoritative approach that allows clients to take the lead in discussions so that, in the process, they will discover their own solutions.

+ PSYCHODYNAMIC

Psychodynamic therapy, also known as insight-oriented therapy, evolved from Freudian psychoanalysis. Psychodynamic approaches believe that bringing the unconscious into conscious awareness promotes insight and resolves conflict.

+ STRENGTH-BASED

Strength-based therapy is a type of positive psychotherapy and counseling that focuses on your internal strengths and resourcefulness, and less on weaknesses, failures, and shortcomings.