About Marshella
Marshella Stone Davis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 24 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship problems, and life transitions. She uses straightforward, goal-focused work to help clients build skills and feel heard. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at finding real steps forward.
She favors Client-Centered work that respects each person's goals. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice and shift unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
Solution-Focused techniques guide short-term planning and small changes that add up. Marshella emphasizes clear communication and simple skills. In sessions she will listen, reflect what she hears, and offer strategies you can try between meetings.
This can include small behavior changes, ways to challenge anxious thoughts, and steps to improve everyday functioning. Her background includes a Master of Education from the University of Houston-Victoria and a bachelor’s degree in English and Communication from Angelo State University. She practices in Texas and brings two decades plus of clinical experience to her work.
Clients seeking help with addiction, trauma, grief, mood concerns, parenting strain, or career stress will find a practical focus. The aim is to help people move toward clearer goals, better coping, and more satisfying day-to-day life.
Approaches that fit online counseling
This therapist blends Client-Centered and Cognitive Behavioral approaches into online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting each person’s goals; it helps people feel heard and build motivation for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with clients about their symptoms, goals, and preferences, and then shape sessions around what seems most useful. This is a collaborative effort so plans can be adjusted as needs change.
Online therapy with this clinician offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets you work face-to-face and use visual cues. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t convenient. Live chat and text sessions work well for short check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit counseling into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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