Shakelia McKenzie

Counselor in Training / Clinical Intern

Supervised by Aimee Rhodes, LPC-S

You may be feeling overwhelmed trying to manage emotions, relationships, stress, or major life changes on your own.

Anxiety, communication struggles, relationship stress, mood changes, neurodiversity, and difficult transitions can affect the way you feel about yourself, your relationships, school, work, and daily life. Sometimes it can feel difficult to slow your thoughts down, explain what you are feeling, or know where to begin.

Shakelia works with children 10+, teens, and adults using a supportive, collaborative, and compassionate approach that helps clients feel emotionally safe while building practical tools for emotional wellness, communication, coping, and personal growth.

Her goal is to create a space where clients feel heard, respected, and understood while navigating life challenges, identity development, emotional overwhelm, and relationship stress at a pace that feels manageable and supportive.

A Good Fit For You If…

You Feel Anxious or Emotionally Overwhelmed

Anxiety , racing thoughts, emotional stress, or mood changes may be making it difficult to feel grounded, focused, or emotionally steady day to day.

You’re Navigating a Life Transition

Changes in school, work, relationships, family dynamics, identity development, or daily routines may feel confusing, stressful, or difficult to adjust to emotionally.

You Want Help With Communication and Relationships

You may want support expressing yourself, setting healthier boundaries, navigating conflict, improving communication, or strengthening important relationships.

You’re Supporting a Child or Teen

Counseling can help children 10+ and teens build emotional awareness, healthier coping skills, confidence, communication skills, and emotional regulation.

You’re Neurodiverse or Often Feel Misunderstood

You may want a space where your experiences, communication style, strengths, and emotional needs are approached with curiosity, respect, and support.

You Want Support That Feels Collaborative and Safe

You’re looking for counseling that feels supportive, respectful, emotionally safe, and focused on helping you better understand yourself without pressure or judgment.

Support for Anxiety, Emotional Wellness, Relationships, and Life Transitions

Counseling can help you better understand emotions, strengthen communication, improve coping skills, and feel more supported while navigating stressful seasons, relationship challenges, identity development, and everyday life transitions.

Whether you are navigating anxiety, emotional overwhelm, communication struggles, neurodiversity, or major changes in life, therapy can become a space where you feel heard, respected, and supported without pressure or judgment.

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Supportive counseling for children 10+, teens, and adults in San Antonio and virtually across Texas.

What You Can Expect

Shakelia creates a supportive, collaborative, and emotionally safe counseling space where clients can feel comfortable talking through challenges without pressure, judgment, or expectations to have everything figured out.

Sessions are tailored to each client’s needs while helping children, teens, and adults better understand emotions, strengthen communication, improve coping skills, and navigate life transitions in healthier and more manageable ways.

Whether you are navigating anxiety, emotional overwhelm, relationship stress, communication difficulties, neurodiversity, or major life transitions, counseling can become a space where you feel more supported, understood, and confident navigating everyday life.

Counseling is a space where growth, healing, and self-understanding can happen one step at a time.

A Little More About Shakelia

Shakelia is known for being warm, approachable, patient, and easy to talk to. She values creating a counseling space where clients feel emotionally safe, respected, and comfortable showing up as themselves without fear of judgment.

Her approach is collaborative, supportive, and relationship-centered while helping clients build confidence, strengthen communication, process emotions, and better understand themselves through life’s challenges and transitions.

Shakelia is passionate about supporting children, teens, and adults while helping clients feel heard, empowered, and more connected to themselves and the people around them.

Support Through Life’s Changes, Stress, and Emotional Challenges

Counseling can help you better understand emotions, strengthen communication, build healthier coping tools, and feel more supported while navigating anxiety, relationships, emotional overwhelm, identity development, transitions, and everyday stress.

Whether you are supporting a child or teen, navigating personal growth, adjusting to change, or simply feeling emotionally exhausted, therapy can become a space where you feel more grounded, understood, and connected to yourself.

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Growth and healing often begin in spaces where you feel safe enough to show up as yourself.