About Shay
Shay Williams is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with 15 years of experience. He brings a practical, down-to-earth approach to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, mood problems, and relationship struggles. Shay listens carefully and works with each person to find workable next steps.
He starts by getting a clear picture of daily patterns and how they affect mood and behavior. Sessions look at thoughts, feelings, and actions to spot repeating habits that cause pain.
Background and approach
Shay uses straightforward tools to build coping skills and set achievable goals. Shay blends therapies that emphasize relationships, present thinking, and skill-building. He draws on attachment-based ideas to understand connection and safety, cognitive-behavioral methods to change unhelpful thinking, and mindfulness strategies to reduce reactivity.
Motivational interviewing also appears when clients need help finding motivation for change. People come for help with anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, parenting strain, grief, anger, ADHD, and other life shifts. Shay also supports those dealing with adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, and challenges tied to codependency or communication problems.
In sessions Shay stays practical and collaborative. He breaks larger goals into small steps, practices new skills in session, and adjusts the plan based on what is working. The focus is on usable strategies that fit a person’s life and responsibilities.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Shay commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based ideas in his work. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new responses, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation. Attachment-based approaches look at how past and current relationships shape feelings of safety and trust, which can help with relationship struggles and reactions to stress.He also incorporates dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness techniques when needed. DBT skills teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. Mindfulness work helps people notice thoughts and sensations without getting swept away, which can reduce reactivity in stressful moments. Shay works together with each person to choose the most helpful approaches based on goals and daily life demands.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this work. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation for skill practice and feedback, while phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, and reminders about homework. These flexible formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to practice new skills when they are most needed.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English