About Shonda
Shonda Harris is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, mood swings, and life changes. She speaks plainly and works to make sessions useful and easy to follow. Her approach aims to help clients learn practical skills they can use between meetings.
Shonda draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people see how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to identify small, realistic steps toward the goals a person sets.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be structured and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on skills practice and short-term progress. With 18 years of experience in Texas, she has supported people facing a wide range of concerns. These include relationship struggles, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, ADHD, bipolar disorder, parenting stress, and issues around intimacy and self esteem.
Additional areas she addresses include attachment and abandonment, blended family issues, codependency, and communication problems. In sessions she helps clients build coping strategies for anxiety and depression, manage impulsivity, and create plans for life changes or career questions. She works on concrete communication tools for relationship difficulties and on steps to reduce unhelpful behaviors tied to mood or substance use.
The focus is practical: identify a goal, try a simple strategy, and adjust as needed. Shonda aims to offer a non-judgmental, respectful space. She speaks English and practices in Texas as an LPC.
For people who prefer remote care, she provides video, phone, chat, and text-based options.
How her approaches translate to online work
Shonda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. That approach breaks problems into steps you can practice, such as changing unhelpful thoughts or testing new behaviors to see what helps. Solution-Focused Therapy is also part of her work and centers on small, concrete steps toward a clear goal. It emphasizes strengths, what is already working, and quick, manageable changes.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and life demands, then suggest strategies to try. Together she and the client review progress and adjust the plan when needed so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face when screens are convenient. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to share brief updates, try short exercises, or get support between longer sessions. These options create flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while using CBT and solution-focused techniques effectively in remote sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English