Licensed Professional Counselor Associate, NC and SC

About Shezada

Shezada is a licensed professional counselor associate at Balanced Wellness, providing virtual therapy services to clients across both North Carolina and South Carolina. She works with adults and couples and is passionate about helping clients feel more emotionally connected, understood, and confident in their relationships and within themselves.

Ideal Client

Shezada’s ideal clients are couples who want to improve communication, rebuild trust, strengthen emotional closeness, and develop a shared vision for their relationship. She also enjoys working with adults and couples who feel stuck in patterns that no longer serve them, particularly those navigating relationship challenges, anxiety, depression, and emotional overwhelm.
Many of her clients come to therapy feeling disconnected, misunderstood, or “not enough” internally. Couples may notice recurring cycles of conflict, such as one partner pursuing connection while the other withdraws or tries to solve problems logically. Individuals may experience self-doubt, emotional fatigue, or difficulty expressing needs and feelings.

Therapeutic Approach

Shezada’s work is collaborative, relational, and grounded in helping clients slow down and understand what is happening beneath the surface of their emotions and interactions. She supports clients in identifying unhelpful patterns, increasing emotional awareness, and developing new ways of relating to themselves and others that foster connection and security.

Her approach is rooted in attachment-based and emotion-focused therapy. She integrates evidence-based modalities including Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), person-centered therapy, the Gottman Method for couples, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for individual work. Across all sessions, Shezada offers a warm, structured, and nonjudgmental space where emotions are welcomed and relationship dynamics are explored with curiosity rather than blame. Together, clients work toward building trust, strengthening communication, improving emotional regulation, and developing practical tools that support lasting change.

Connect With Shezada

Therapy can be a powerful step toward deeper connection and understanding. If you are an individual or couple seeking to feel more grounded, emotionally connected, and confident in your relationships, Shezada welcomes the opportunity to support you. She invites you to reach out to schedule a consultation and explore whether therapy at Balanced Wellness is the right fit for you.