About Tahseen
Tahseen Shaista uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide clients toward clearer thinking and healthier coping.
Background and approach
With 13 years of clinical experience and an Illinois LCPC license, she focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, and ADHD while also addressing related concerns such as codependency, communication problems, compulsive behaviors, panic attacks, and issues around guilt and shame. Her practice emphasizes building on each client's strengths to support lasting change.
She creates a collaborative space where clients can explore mood and emotional challenges, relationship and transitional concerns, and struggles with substance use or obsessive patterns. Tahseen approaches therapy with a practical, empathetic stance that values courage and steady progress, helping people navigate isolation, life purpose questions, midlife transitions, and multicultural complexities.
She accepts international clients and conducts sessions from Illinois, offering flexible formats to fit different schedules and preferences.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Therapy Options
Many of Tahseen's interventions draw from widely used evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and insight. One common approach emphasizes skill building for emotion regulation and anxiety management, teaching strategies to reduce panic symptoms, manage obsessive thoughts, and regain daily functioning. Another approach concentrates on addressing addictive behaviors and trauma-related responses by combining coping tools with processing of underlying experiences to support recovery and healthier choices.Choosing the right therapeutic method is part of the collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then tailor a treatment plan that may combine techniques over time to match evolving needs.
Online therapy with Tahseen offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit counseling into busy lives or across time zones. These options support ongoing work on stress, mood, attention, and relationship concerns while allowing clients to engage from wherever they are located.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English