About Shontel
Shontel Taylor Harris is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas who offers calm, practical support for stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She uses a straightforward style and centers each session on the client’s goals. Shontel says taking the first step toward change takes courage, and she aims to meet people where they are.
With 12 years of professional experience, Shontel focuses on helping people name patterns that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
She listens for issues tied to attachment, abandonment, communication problems, and blended family stress. She also works with concerns such as body image, control struggles, and the effects of domestic violence. Sessions tend to be practical and goal-oriented.
Shontel helps people build small skills for managing anxiety and improving relationships. She also supports exploration of painful experiences and family of origin issues when those come up. Her approach treats the person as the expert on their life.
Shontel helps clients draw on their strengths and identify useful next steps. She offers steady support while people try new ways of handling old problems. People often come for help around divorce and separation, forgiveness work, mood disruptions, or co-occurring challenges.
Shontel offers straightforward guidance as clients work toward clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and renewed motivation.
Approaches that guide online care and practical support
Shontel offers evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-world change. One common approach she uses helps people identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and then practice more helpful responses. This is useful for managing anxiety, low mood, and stress related to day-to-day life. Another approach centers on understanding attachment and relationship patterns. It helps people notice how early relationships shape how they relate now, and supports improved communication and boundaries. Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Shontel treats the process as a collaboration and will discuss different methods with each person. Together they decide which techniques match the client’s goals, needs, and comfort level, and adjust as progress is made. Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more depth is needed. Phone sessions take less bandwidth and can be easier during a break from work. Live chat or text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, building skills between sessions, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English