About Marshella
Marshella Stone Davis uses client-centered and solution-focused methods to help people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, addiction, and life transitions. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, with 24 years of experience in Texas. Marshella keeps sessions straightforward and focused on practical steps.
She aims to create a respectful, positive space where people feel heard and work toward clear goals. Her approach starts by listening closely to what matters most to each person.
How Marshella works
She blends client-centered listening with tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Solution-focused work helps keep sessions goal-directed so progress feels visible and concrete. Marshella has supported adults, parents, and teens through common parenting and family challenges, career and caregiving stress, and issues such as trauma, grief, and addiction.
She also addresses concerns like body image, codependency, intimacy and communication problems, and compassion fatigue. Sessions often involve practicing new ways of thinking and brief exercises to build skills between meetings. She emphasizes collaboration - clients help set goals and decide which strategies to use.
That shared planning keeps therapy practical and relevant to everyday life. Marshella holds a Master of Education from the University of Houston–Victoria and a bachelor’s in English and Communication from Angelo State University. She brings two decades plus of counseling work to each session, focusing on steady progress and workable solutions.
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What Marshella works with
The areas below are the ones Marshella selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship, letting the client drive pace and goals while the therapist reflects and supports. It helps with motivation, self-esteem, and relationship or life changes by centering what matters most to the person.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. In online sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thought patterns and practicing new behaviors between meetings to reduce anxiety, depression, or addictive urges.
Mindfulness Therapy brings simple attention and breathing practices into everyday life to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation. It can be useful for stress, grief, and compassion fatigue by creating small, repeatable exercises clients can use anywhere.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That shared planning can mean mixing approaches or emphasizing one method over another based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper exchanges. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing helps someone reflect. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around a busy life.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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