About Shelia
Dr. Shelia Lumar is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with 20 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and relationship concerns.
She encourages clients to recognize their own strengths and to take small, steady steps toward change. Her approach is collaborative and respectful. She sees each person as the expert on their own life and builds on what already works.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical strategies that fit daily life, not on jargon or long lectures. Dr. Lumar uses methods drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, and emotionally-focused techniques.
She adapts the style to each person’s needs, blending skills practice with time to talk through feelings. The goal is clearer thinking and more manageable responses to stressors. She has experience helping people cope with big life transitions, grief, parenting strain, intimacy issues, and career stress.
She also supports those dealing with attachment wounds, body image concerns, and complicated grief related to adoption or separation. Sessions are offered in English and take place through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Practical matters like scheduling and subscription billing are handled up front so clients can focus on their goals and progress.
Approaches that guide online therapy
Dr. Lumar blends client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and emotionally-focused strategies to meet a range of needs. Client-centered work means the conversation follows the person’s concerns and priorities while the therapist reflects and supports their perspective. Cognitive behavioral techniques involve identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Emotionally-focused strategies help people identify core emotions and strengthen how they express and respond to feelings in close relationships.Choosing an approach happens together. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what helps. That cooperative process helps find the mix of conversation and skills practice that feels right for the individual.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give options that match different days and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when deeper reflection is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone needs flexible catch-ups between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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