About Marshella
Marshella Stone Davis is a Licensed Professional Counselor who uses a client-centered, practical style to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely to understand each person's goals. Her approach is direct and solution-focused while staying warm and respectful.
She draws on 24 years of experience in Texas to guide conversations about trauma, grief, addictions, and identity concerns. Sessions often include looking at current thinking patterns and trying new behaviors to reduce worry or improve relationships.
Background and approach
Marshella offers straightforward skills people can use between sessions. Marshella also helps with parenting challenges, career transitions, body image, and issues around caregiver stress. She works with concerns such as anger, intimacy-related issues, eating difficulties, and compassion fatigue.
People who face blended family challenges, divorce, or substance-related problems may find practical steps to move forward. Sessions combine elements of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness practice, and solution-focused planning within a client-centered stance. This means the plan grows from what the person wants to change and what fits their life.
The therapist and client set clear, achievable goals and check progress along the way. Her communication style stays simple and action-oriented. She encourages clients to notice what helps and to try small changes that lead to better day-to-day functioning.
The focus is on realistic steps toward the life a person wants to build.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. The therapist reflects what she hears and helps organize thoughts so people feel understood and can set clear goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. It helps with anxiety, depression, and unhelpful coping habits.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals and try methods that match a client's needs and preferences. If an approach isn’t helping, she will adjust the plan together so sessions remain useful and focused on progress.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for deeper conversations and when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people touch base between sessions and keep momentum during busy weeks. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or daily life while keeping the same therapeutic methods used in face-to-face work.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English