About Shelia
Dr. Shelia Lumar is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience in Texas. She supports people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or addiction.
Sheila frames the first session as a chance to hear a person’s story and find immediate, practical steps forward. She sees clients as the experts on their own lives and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable changes that fit daily life.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward talk therapy and tools that people can use between sessions. Her background includes long-term clinical work with adults facing relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, and major life changes. That experience informs how she helps people cope with loss, shifting roles, and emotional pain.
She also supports people managing intimacy-related concerns and issues tied to identity and attachment. Therapeutic approaches in her practice include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Existential Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. Those methods are used to help people change unhelpful patterns, process emotion, and make values-based decisions.
Sessions are offered in English and provided through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The work is collaborative - goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made.
How her approaches guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person without judgment. It helps when someone wants a space to tell their story and identify values that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It offers concrete tools to change unhelpful thinking and to practice new behaviors between meetings. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and move through strong feelings and improve emotional connection with themselves and others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they choose which methods to try and revisit that plan as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and flexible.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work for quick reflections, written check-ins between sessions, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work from different locations.
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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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