About Shawna
Shawna Theriot is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 22 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical ways to feel steadier in day-to-day life. Shawna offers video, phone, chat, and text sessions for people who prefer online care from Texas.
Shawna blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral and mindfulness tools. She listens first, then helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small changes.
How Shawna works
Sessions often include mindfulness practices, narrative work to reframe life stories, and motivational strategies to build momentum. Her background includes long-term work with grief, foster care and adoption issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and transitions related to aging. She also supports people dealing with body image, communication problems, divorce and domestic violence, and fatherhood concerns.
Shawna uses this experience to tailor plans to each person's situation. Shawna aims to make therapy straightforward and usable. She helps people set clear goals, practice new skills between sessions, and track what works.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to match each person's needs. People who choose her often want practical strategies alongside space to tell their story. Shawna creates room for those conversations while offering specific tools to manage emotions and improve daily routines.
Shawna lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Shawna works with
The areas below are the ones Shawna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approach-focused online care that fits your life
Shawna often uses client-centered work that puts the person's priorities first, creating a space to talk about what matters and set practical goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches simple tools to change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness techniques are used to help people notice their thoughts and calm strong emotions in the moment.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shawna will listen to your goals and try different methods to see what helps most. Together you will decide which techniques to keep, which to adapt, and how quickly to move forward based on your needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls let you talk face to face, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter conversations, and text messaging supports quick check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities while still getting consistent support.
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