About Shonnia
Shonnia Spears greets people with a calm, listening approach. She focuses on helping individuals who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or life changes. Shonnia is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas and works to help clients notice their strengths and build practical skills.
She prefers short, clear steps in therapy. Sessions often include talking through immediate problems, identifying unhelpful thoughts, and testing small changes to see what helps.
Background and approach
Shonnia uses client-centered methods to stay attuned to each person's values and goals while drawing on cognitive-behavioral ideas to address troubling thought patterns. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are part of her approach when people need help finding motivation or setting reachable goals. These tools are used to create simple plans and track progress rather than to focus on long, abstract analyses.
The intent is to make therapy feel useful from the start. Her experience covers a range of concerns including parenting stress, adoption and foster care issues, multicultural challenges, women’s concerns, young adult issues, ADHD, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. She aims to meet each person where they are and work at a pace they can manage.
Shonnia provides sessions in English and accepts international clients. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's pace. In online sessions this means the therapist spends time understanding each client's values and preferences, then shapes sessions to match those priorities. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical exercises. Online CBT often includes homework between sessions and short skills practice during calls to help manage anxiety, depression, or stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then blend methods like client-centered support and CBT to fit the situation. This is a collaborative process where plans are adjusted as progress is tracked.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions are useful when a quieter or lower-bandwidth option is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging help with shorter check-ins, quick coping strategies, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into workdays, caregiving time, or different time zones.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English