About Shauna
Shauna Holder is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and phobias. She writes clearly and listens closely so clients feel heard from the start. Shauna aims to make goals feel realistic and reachable rather than overwhelming.
Shauna uses approaches that focus on thoughts, emotions, and practical skills. Sessions often include exercises to spot unhelpful thinking and to try new ways of responding in everyday life. She blends skills training with conversations about values and meaning so progress fits each person's life.
Background and approach
Her style is firm but compassionate. Shauna expects effort and follow-through, while offering steady support and direct feedback. This balance helps people change habits and cope with setbacks without feeling judged.
With 13 years as an LPC in Texas, Shauna has worked with many concerns, including trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and parenting stress. She also addresses attachment struggles, body image, and coping with major life changes. Sessions are tailored to what each person needs.
Shauna uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, emotionally-focused therapy, client-centered work, and existential approaches. She helps people set clear steps and practice new skills between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy puts the client’s experience first and focuses on building a respectful, trusting relationship. Online sessions using this approach emphasize listening, reflection, and working at the client’s pace to address anxiety, relationship concerns, or life transitions.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a practical approach that looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In remote work, CBT often involves short exercises, worksheets, and homework that clients complete between video or text sessions to reduce phobia-driven avoidance and anxious thinking.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. Delivered online, DBT can include skills coaching during chat or text check-ins and structured practice during video or phone sessions to manage overwhelming feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the early work. Shauna will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and daily life and then adjust the plan as progress is made. This collaborative process helps keep therapy practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls support face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a simple check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, skills practice, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to continue work between appointments.
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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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