About Shelia
Dr. Shelia Lumar is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 20 years of clinical experience. She has worked with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and addiction.
She supports those navigating relationship concerns, parenting strains, grief, career stress, and major life changes. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She starts by listening to each person's story and identifying what is most important to them.
She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and helps them build on their strengths.
How Shelia works
Dr. Lumar uses several practical approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people reframe unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors.
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting relationship and validating feelings. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and express emotions in ways that improve connection and intimacy. Sheila also draws on motivational interviewing to support change and existential ideas to explore meaning and values when life feels unsettled.
Sessions typically include clear, doable steps people can try between meetings. She offers empathetic guidance while helping clients set realistic goals. People who choose Dr.
Lumar often want practical tools, steady support, and a partner in planning next steps. Her approach aims to reduce immediate symptoms and build lasting coping skills for future challenges.
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What Shelia works with
The areas below are the ones Shelia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Lumar commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in her online work. CBT breaks down how thoughts and actions influence feelings, then builds practical exercises to reduce anxiety and mood problems. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on a respectful, accepting relationship so people feel heard while they sort out difficult emotions.She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy when relationship or intimacy issues are central. EFT helps people name and express emotions so they can improve connection and address recurring conflicts. Together, these approaches help with stress, trauma, addiction, and life transitions by combining skills practice with emotional clarity.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That choice can change over time as new priorities emerge and progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and exercises, phone works well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support ongoing processing between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and busy lives.
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