About Shawana
Shawana Porter is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina with 15 years of experience. She has worked in hospitals, correctional settings, and mental health facilities. Shawana focuses on helping people move through hard moments toward clearer thinking and better day-to-day functioning.
She helps with depression, stress, and anxiety. She also supports people managing anger, low self-esteem, motivation problems, and life transitions. Shawana offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can tell their story and consider new choices.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related concerns, and compassion fatigue. She has additional focus on aging and geriatric issues, sexual assault and abuse, and young adult issues. Those experiences shape how she notices patterns and practical barriers to change.
In sessions she draws on several evidence-based techniques to help people practice new skills and test small changes between meetings. She emphasizes achievable steps rather than big promises. The aim is to make daily life more manageable and to build confidence in facing challenges.
Shawana approaches each person as the expert on their own life. She collaborates on goals, adjusts methods to fit each situation, and supports clients through the slow work of change. Sessions are offered in English and available through multiple online formats.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Shawana uses a mix of practical, evidence-based techniques to help people change unhelpful patterns. Cognitive Behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing different responses to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Mindfulness-based methods teach simple attention and breathing practices to lower stress and increase emotional awareness.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and daily life. Together they try methods, review what helps, and adjust the plan so it fits the client’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging are helpful for quick updates, brief coping support, or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English