About Shauna
Shauna Holder is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and life changes. She writes and speaks plainly, and focuses on clear steps people can use between sessions. Her approach balances practical tools with steady support so clients can move forward at their own pace.
With 13 years of experience, she has helped people facing depression, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, addictions, and trauma and abuse. She also assists with relationship strain, intimacy questions, grief, parenting challenges, and career stress.
Background and approach
Shauna pays attention to how past wounds like abandonment or attachment issues affect present choices. In sessions she combines Client-Centered work with cognitive-behavioral and dialectical behavior therapy methods. That means she listens first, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and patterns, and teaches skills to manage strong emotions.
She keeps the process practical and focused on real-life problems. Shauna works with concerns that range from communication and commitment issues to body image and caregiver stress. She also addresses more specific matters such as adoption and foster care challenges, dissociation, and coping after disasters.
Her style is steady and goal-oriented, aimed at helping people build usable skills. She practices in Texas and sees clients in English. Sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Evidence-Informed Approaches and Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are, helping them feel understood and guiding conversations toward personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical changes in thinking and behavior to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions may blend approaches so the plan matches what someone wants to change and how they learn best.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can work for quick adjustments, brief skill practice, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit counseling into busy schedules and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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