About Desiree
Desiree Shaw is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Louisiana. She focuses on helping people manage depression, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. Desiree aims to help clients build resilience and develop more self-compassion in daily life.
She creates a welcoming, nonjudgmental space that honors each person’s story. Sessions concentrate on practical skills for coping with stress, improving self-esteem, and handling isolation or loneliness. Desiree also helps people address body image concerns and women's health issues in straightforward, respectful conversation.
Background and approach
Desiree uses a trauma-informed, person-centered stance to guide her work. That means she pays attention to how past hurts affect current feelings and follows each client’s pace and priorities. For people living with chronic pain or serious illness, she focuses on manageable strategies to reduce emotional strain.
She also supports people navigating grief and end-of-life concerns, and those exploring non-monogamous or polyamorous relationships. In sessions she focuses on clear goals, steady progress, and tools that can be used between meetings. Desiree has four years of clinical experience as an LPC.
Her practice emphasizes kindness, practical problem solving, and helping people find small, sustainable changes that improve day-to-day life.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Desiree uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and healing. One common approach she applies is a trauma-informed, person-centered method that helps people understand how past experiences shape current reactions, and then work at a comfortable pace to change unhelpful patterns. This approach can help with anxiety, grief, and the emotional effects of chronic illness.She also emphasizes building resilience and self-compassion through straightforward strategies. That can include learning breathing and grounding practices, shifting self-critical thoughts, and developing daily routines that reduce stress and improve mood. These techniques are useful for depression, low self-esteem, and coping with life transitions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She works with each person to identify goals, tries methods that fit their preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques feel most helpful for the issues at hand.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction, phone sessions use less bandwidth when needed, live chat can be a shorter way to check in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily rhythms.
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- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English