About Pamela
Pamela Shultz is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship concerns, parenting strains, and coping with life changes. She draws on her own experience as a Navy veteran and a parent to relate to busy adults feeling overwhelmed by responsibilities. Pamela aims to make sessions straightforward and practical so people leave with clear steps to try between meetings.
She uses a mix of client-centered listening and structured methods to help people spot unhelpful habits.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her approach when patterns of thought and behavior need direct work. She also brings mindfulness practices to help clients manage intense emotions in the moment. Pamela emphasizes collaboration.
She asks questions, listens, and helps clients set small, attainable goals. Sessions often include discussion, skill-building exercises, and simple homework to reinforce progress between meetings. Her work often centers on substance use and recovery, where she helps people recognize triggers, build coping skills, and plan practical steps toward stability.
Pamela also supports those facing changes like divorce, caregiving burdens, chronic illness, or major life transitions. With three years of counseling experience in Louisiana, Pamela blends down-to-earth talk with evidence-informed techniques. She offers a steady, nonjudgmental presence and a focus on usable tools rather than abstract theory.
How Pamela's Approaches Translate to Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs. It involves reflective conversation, empathy, and guiding choices rather than directing them, which helps people feel heard and decide what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, mood issues, and behavior change.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Pamela will discuss goals and preferences, try techniques in session, and adjust the plan based on what proves helpful. This collaborative process helps tailor sessions to the person's pace and priorities rather than forcing a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or eye contact is an issue. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, shorter coaching-style exchanges, or follow-up between longer sessions. These options help make therapy fit into busy lives and varying routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English