About Shaunte
Shaunte Gates is an LCSW with 15 years of clinical experience helping people navigate depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship challenges, stress, and self-esteem concerns.
Background and approach
She is licensed in Missouri and Illinois and draws on evidence-based practice to guide her work while remaining attentive to each person’s individual strengths and goals. Shaunte emphasizes collaboration, inviting clients to participate actively in shaping their care and to build practical skills that support long-term wellbeing.
Her therapeutic style is grounded in compassion and respect, offering a calm, non-judgmental space to examine difficult experiences and learn tools for coping and growth. With extensive hands-on experience and clinical training, Shaunte adapts interventions to fit the needs and preferences of each client, focusing on clear, usable strategies as well as deeper insight.
She aims to help clients better understand themselves, process painful material, and move toward more fulfilling ways of living.
Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Support
Shaunte uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical tools and emotional processing. One approach emphasizes skills training to manage anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and problem-solving strategies that can reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. Another approach centers on trauma-informed work, helping clients process painful memories and develop coping strategies to reduce the impact of past events on current life. These methods are rooted in research and tailored to each person’s situation.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the clinical process, and she works collaboratively with clients to determine what fits best. Together the therapist and client review symptoms, goals, and personal preferences, then adapt techniques over time as needs change. This partnership helps ensure the work aligns with the client’s values and desired outcomes.
Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. These formats make it possible to receive consistent support, practice new skills between sessions, and maintain therapeutic momentum while fitting treatment into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Missouri
- Languages
- English