About Antwynette
Antwynette Shields is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings 14 years of experience in public and personal mental health settings. She describes a person-centered, compassionate style that aims to make people feel heard and respected. Her approach emphasizes empathy, warmth, and authenticity as the basis for working together.
She leans on person-centered principles while also using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT. ACT focuses on helping people identify what matters most to them and learn ways to live in line with those values, even when difficult thoughts and feelings are present.
Background and approach
Sessions are meant to be a collaborative space where the client’s goals guide the work. Antwynette has supported people facing stress, anxiety, anger, and depression. She also helps with relationship concerns, compassion fatigue, parenting challenges, career issues, and coping with life changes.
Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiver stress, communication and commitment problems, and recovery from infidelity or separation. Her practical approach often addresses everyday problems like managing emotions, improving communication, and making choices that match personal values. She emphasizes helping people accept natural emotions while taking steps toward change.
This can include short-term coping strategies and longer-term work on patterns that undermine well-being. Antwynette practices in Mississippi and provides services in English. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
How person-centered work and ACT translate to online therapy
Antwynette combines person-centered work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT. Person-centered work focuses on listening closely, reflecting what matters to you, and creating a non-judgmental space to talk. It helps when someone needs empathy and practical feedback about life stressors and relationship struggles.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take committed steps toward them while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and coping with major life changes because it teaches small, practical actions that match what matters most to you.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust as you go. Clients and therapist decide together which exercises or strategies are most useful for day-to-day life.
Session formats are not specified in the profile, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when those are helpful. It can also make it simpler to work around work or caregiving commitments while still getting regular support from a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English