Shauna Holder, LPC

Shauna Holder is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She works with individuals facing depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, relationship concerns, parenting stress, and grief. Her style balances clear guidance with empathy so people feel heard and challenged to try new ways of coping.

Holder draws on 13 years of counseling experience to shape each session around a person’s goals. She listens for what matters most and then uses practical tools from cognitive-behavioral approaches to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns. She also brings in skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help with emotion regulation and distress tolerance.

Sessions focus on real-life steps people can use between meetings. Shauna encourages small, achievable changes - for example, brief experiments in communication or daily habits that reduce stress. She checks in on progress and adjusts strategies based on what’s working.

Her work is straightforward and respectful. She aims to create a space where someone can talk through painful experiences like trauma or loss, and learn concrete ways to cope. She also helps people navigate career strain, caregiving stress, and issues around intimacy or identity.

People who choose Shauna can expect collaborative goal-setting, skill-building, and follow-up on practical assignments. Her approach is meant to fit into busy lives while targeting the core problems that cause persistent worry and overwhelm.

How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions

Client-centered work puts the person’s concerns first and focuses on listening, empathy, and collaboration to set goals. This helps people who need space to talk through stress, grief, or identity questions while shaping therapy around their priorities.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by building skills to manage worry and reframe thinking.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) contributes concrete emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills. These tools can help when feelings feel overwhelming or when someone needs better ways to cope in the moment.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to use, and may combine elements from these approaches based on individual goals and needs.

Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not detailed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, try shorter check-ins, and use tools and exercises during the week. Licensed professionals can help tailor session length and frequency so therapy fits into everyday life rather than disrupting it.