About Shalom
Shalom Palacio-Hollmon is an Oklahoma psychologist with 20 years of professional experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and the ups and downs of major life changes. Her approach respects each person's experience and focuses on strengths you can use right away.
She listens first and works to understand what matters to each person. Sessions aim to make everyday problems easier to manage and to reduce symptoms that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Shalom encourages practical steps and small changes that build over time. Across two decades of practice she has supported people facing a range of concerns, including panic attacks, mood disorders, ADHD, parenting stress, relationship and intimacy worries, and challenges related to immigration or military service. She also helps with caregiver strain, chronic illness, and the aftereffects of trauma.
Shalom brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions. She treats people with respect and helps them notice their own strengths. Together she and the client identify goals and try methods that fit daily routines and responsibilities.
Clients can expect a steady, goal-oriented process that balances listening with practical work. Shalom holds the credential OK Psychologist 1106 and practices in Oklahoma. She offers services in English and works with clients from inside and outside the United States.
Approaches that fit real life and online sessions
Shalom uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people reduce symptoms and build skills. One common approach she uses emphasizes identifying unhelpful patterns in thinking and behavior, then practicing alternative responses to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. This method helps with panic attacks, low mood, and daily stressors.Another approach centers on processing reactions after trauma and abuse, helping people make sense of difficult experiences and learn coping tools for flashbacks, avoidance, or intrusive memories. This work aims to restore a sense of control and reduce the impact of past events on present life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or adapt techniques based on their goals, needs, and preferences. That process can include trying brief strategies first and adjusting over time as progress is reviewed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules and varying needs. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone is useful for lower bandwidth or when audio-only fits better, chat and messaging support quick check-ins or flexible, shorter contacts. These options aim to make it easier to maintain regular contact and carry practice into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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