About Shawna
Shawna Theriot is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who combines client-centered care with practical tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. She offers straightforward support and helps people set clear, doable goals. Her style is calm and collaborative, aimed at making therapy feel manageable for busy lives.
She draws on 22 years of experience working with a wide range of concerns. That includes self-esteem, depression, coping with illness or chronic pain, caregiver stress, and challenges tied to adoption and foster care.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing divorce, separation, and family of origin issues. Shawna uses several approaches to match what each person needs. She uses client-centered methods to follow a person’s pace, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and mindfulness exercises to reduce reactivity.
She also brings narrative ideas to help reframe difficult stories and motivational interviewing to support change. Sessions are offered in English and are provided to people in Texas. Shawna works online through video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging, and she uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Her Texas license is TX LCSW 37722. Her work often focuses on practical skills and steady support. She helps people build routines, manage emotions, and find coping strategies that fit their daily life.
The aim is to help people feel more able to handle what comes next.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Shawna uses client-centered therapy to build sessions around each person’s goals and pace. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people choose the topics they want to work on, which is useful for issues like grief, caregiver stress, and life transitions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers concrete tools to reduce anxiety and depression, such as breaking down problems into small steps and testing different ways of coping. Mindfulness therapy is another tool she uses to help reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness through short practices that can be done between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Shawna will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods that match their goals and preferences. She checks in on what is working and adjusts the plan as needed so sessions feel relevant and doable.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. This variety helps people keep therapy consistent despite changing schedules or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English