About Desiree
Desiree Shaw is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. She works with clients facing life changes and low self-esteem. Her tone is direct and caring, aimed at people who want steady, practical support.
She focuses on building resilience and self-compassion through straightforward conversations and concrete coping strategies. Sessions emphasize small, manageable steps clients can try between meetings. Desiree pays attention to how isolation, body image, and women’s health concerns affect day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Her practice also supports people dealing with chronic pain, illness, and disability. She offers guidance for those navigating hospice or end-of-life situations and for people processing disasters or sudden disruption. Desiree is aware that these experiences can change how someone thinks about themselves and their relationships.
Desiree is informed by trauma-aware and person-centered ideas. That means she works to honor each person’s story and pace while helping them find useful tools. She also holds space for people exploring non-monogamous relationships and questions around self-love.
She holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential, LPC, and practices in Louisiana. Desiree has four years of clinical experience and conducts sessions in English. Her style aims to be practical, kind, and focused on what a person needs now.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Desiree uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional safety. One common approach she uses emphasizes developing coping skills and small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and stress. This kind of work helps people break worries into manageable steps and practice new responses in daily life.She also applies person-centered, trauma-aware ideas that prioritize each person’s experience. That approach centers on listening, building trust, and adapting the pace and focus to what feels right. It is useful for grief, chronic pain, and processing difficult life events because it allows space for emotional processing alongside practical planning.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which techniques fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they adjust methods over time so the work feels relevant and doable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video can support more in-depth conversation, phone calls can fit into a work break or be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can work for quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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