About Shauna
Shauna Holder is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, trauma, and related concerns. She offers clear, direct support with empathy and practical steps. Her style aims to make difficult problems feel more manageable one conversation at a time.
With 13 years of experience, Shauna draws on several evidence-informed approaches to tailor care to each person. She mixes client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral strategies and skills-based methods to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real-life goals and usable tools rather than abstract theory. People come to Shauna for a wide range of issues, including ADHD, addictions, bipolar mood concerns, intimacy and sexual issues, parenting stress, and compassion fatigue. She also works with concerns tied to abandonment, attachment, blended family challenges, body image, and life transitions.
Her background supports both short-term problem solving and longer-term work on patterns that keep repeating. In sessions she balances warmth with clear guidance. Shauna helps clients identify immediate coping steps, practice new skills, and track small changes over time.
She encourages straightforward conversations about hurt, loss, and hope so people can rebuild confidence and improve daily functioning. Practical matters such as scheduling and format are part of how she works. Shauna provides therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles and rhythms.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the client. It helps people feel heard and build motivation for change by centering their goals and experience.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful thinking and change behaviors that keep problems going, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It is useful when strong mood swings, impulsive actions, or relationship conflict are part of the picture.
Finding the right approach is often a collaborative process. Shauna works with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts the plan over time based on what is helping.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and share screen-based worksheets. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or when video bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow frequent, brief check-ins and skill 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English