Shanique Slowley-Azeez

Shanique Slowley-Azeez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and loneliness. She offers calm, respectful support for problems like low self-esteem, difficulty with motivation, relationship intimacy, parenting strain, and career concerns. Her approach is direct and practical, aimed at making everyday life feel more manageable.

Shanique uses talk therapy that centers the person in the room. She listens, then works with each person to shape short-term goals and a flexible plan. That plan can include tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to notice unhelpful thinking patterns and from dialectical strategies that teach emotion-regulation skills.

Mindfulness techniques and motivational interviewing are also part of her toolbox. Those methods help with focus, building small habits, and finding reasons to keep going when energy is low. Sessions emphasize clear steps people can try between meetings.

Over five years she has worked with people dealing with grief, post-traumatic stress, panic, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and questions about sexuality and life purpose. Shanique aims to treat everyone with sensitivity and without judgment. She adapts sessions to each person’s situation rather than following one fixed method.

To begin, she asks clients to describe what matters most to them and what they hope to change. From there she and the client set realistic next steps and check progress as therapy continues.

Approaches you can use during online therapy

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard and guides the conversation toward their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and gives concrete exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and handle panic symptoms.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and try methods that fit the client's goals and preferences. Decisions about which tools to use are made collaboratively and can change as progress is tracked.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by reducing travel time or allowing shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also supports continued work between meetings, with homework, mindfulness practice, and behavior experiments that can be reviewed each week.