About Shelia
Dr. Shelia Lumar is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Texas with 20 years of experience. She draws on long clinical experience to help people who are feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Reaching out for help is often stressful and she helps make the first step clearer and more manageable. Her work addresses stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and addiction.
Background and approach
She also helps people dealing with relationship strain, grief, parenting challenges, intimacy-related problems, and career stress. Her list of concerns includes issues such as abandonment, attachment problems, body image, and caregiver strain. In sessions she listens for what matters most to each person and builds on their strengths.
She uses approaches like Client-Centered Therapy to follow the client's perspective, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address attachment and emotional patterns. She also draws on Motivational Interviewing and existential ideas when they fit the situation. People can expect treatment that is practical and direct.
She helps set small goals and tracks progress over time. Sessions often include talking through current problems and trying new skills between meetings. She practices in Texas as an LPC and conducts work in English.
For people who prefer remote care, she offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
Therapeutic approaches for online care and connection
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the client's experience and perspective. The therapist listens deeply and follows what matters to the person, which helps people clarify goals and build on existing strengths.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going. It uses straightforward exercises to change thinking patterns and to practice new behaviors for anxiety, depression, and stress.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on attachment and emotional patterns in relationships. It helps people notice core emotions, name them, and work through responses that affect closeness and trust.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer conversations and face-to-face connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a simpler check-in is needed. Chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, skill practice, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different lifestyles.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English