- Years in practice
- 13
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Shauna
Shauna Holder is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who focuses on helping individuals manage stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and relationship concerns. She offers straightforward support for people coping with life changes, grief, addiction issues, ADHD, and trauma and abuse. Her style is direct yet kind, aimed at practical steps rather than long speeches.
Holder draws on more than 13 years of experience to tailor sessions to each person's needs.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of approaches that help people name patterns, practice new skills, and make small changes that add up. Sessions often include problem-solving, emotional regulation tools, and experiments to try between meetings. People often come with specific worries like anger, self-esteem struggles, intimacy-related issues, or career stress.
Shauna also addresses concerns tied to adoption and foster care, blended family issues, attachment and abandonment, and caregiver strain. She frames these topics in everyday language and focuses on what can be changed now. Her approach combines client-centered listening with strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy, along with emotionally-focused and existential perspectives when helpful.
That mix aims to balance practical skill-building with understanding emotions and values. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Fees vary based on location and scheduling, and services use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What Shauna works with
Everything Shauna lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Shauna helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Shauna lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Practical approaches for online parenting and life challenges
Shauna often integrates client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to support people online. Client-centered therapy starts by listening closely and helping people feel heard, which can be useful for exploring parenting stress and relationship worries. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches tools to change unhelpful patterns, which helps with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills that can reduce intense reactions and improve daily coping.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That way work in sessions connects directly to what matters in your daily life and parenting role.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstration. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t convenient. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter touchpoints during a break at work. These options increase flexibility and make regular support more achievable.
Questions people ask about Shauna
What concerns does Shauna focus on?
She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and career stress.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is firm and compassionate, combining listening with practical strategies like skill practice and problem-solving to create change between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 13 years of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor working with a broad range of concerns including mood disorders and relationship strains.
Where is she licensed and located?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Texas and provides services from that location.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are fees handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist scheduling; therapy is delivered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
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