Shalice Foster

Shalice Foster is a Connecticut LCSW with 12 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She also focuses on life purpose, self-love, and women's issues.

Foster helps people untangle overwhelming feelings and find practical next steps. Sessions tend to focus on what is happening now and what small changes might help. She listens for values and strengths clients already have, then looks at patterns that get in the way.

Her work often includes processing past hurts and learning ways to manage strong emotions. She pays attention to how thoughts, behaviors, and relationships keep problems going. This can mean learning new coping skills, testing different choices, or reframing stories clients tell themselves.

Foster pays particular attention to issues many women face during life transitions. That might include shifting roles, identity questions, or re-evaluating priorities after a change. She helps people clarify what matters and explore practical steps toward those priorities.

People usually leave sessions with specific ideas to try between meetings. Foster describes her methods as evidence-based techniques aimed at building resilience and developing more self-compassionate ways of coping. She asks clear questions and offers straightforward feedback to support gradual progress.

Evidence-based approaches and how online sessions work

Many of her methods draw on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that help people manage symptoms and make practical changes. One common approach focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. This involves noticing automatic thoughts and practicing different ways of thinking in everyday situations.

Another approach concentrates on processing past trauma and its effects on current behavior and relationships. This work usually moves at a careful pace and pairs emotional processing with skills for managing strong reactions. Both approaches aim to increase emotional control and improve daily functioning.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean trying one method for a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps most.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, save travel time, and allow check-ins during a lunch break or between commitments. Different formats also let people choose quieter surroundings, shorter check-ins, or sessions without video when that helps them engage.