About Shaiuana
Shaiuana Okoro uses a client-centered approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and relationship struggles. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Texas. Her style is direct and warm, with a focus on practical steps people can use each day.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used to teach coping tools for strong emotions and patterns that cause distress.
Background and approach
The work is collaborative and paced to what each person is ready for. Sessions are a place to talk through difficult feelings like grief, shame, or isolation without judgment. The therapist helps people set small goals, practice new skills, and track what improves over time.
Issues such as self-harm risk, substance use, and mood disorders are approached with clear planning and safety in mind. Shaiuana also supports people dealing with identity and LGBT concerns, career stress, parenting strain, and intimacy issues. She offers coaching-style guidance when clients want actionable steps for change.
Her five years of experience include working with a range of emotional and behavioral challenges. People who prefer simple language and concrete strategies often find value in this approach. The focus is on learning tools that fit daily life and building habits that make coping easier.
Prospective clients start by sharing current struggles and goals, then map out a next step together.
Evidence-based approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, teaches practical techniques to notice and change thought patterns and behaviors that fuel stress and depression. It often includes homework and skill practice between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy supports building present-moment awareness to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation; it pairs well with ACT and CBT for anxiety and grief.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to each person’s goals and try techniques that fit their needs. Decisions about which methods to use are made together and adjusted over time as progress and preferences become clear.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let therapists and clients talk face to face. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep practicing skills in everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English