Shauna Holder, LPC

Shauna Holder is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people facing midlife transitions and related stress. She focuses on common concerns such as anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and coping with big life changes. Shauna uses a direct but compassionate style to guide people toward clearer goals and practical steps.

With 13 years of experience, she draws on several therapy styles to match each person's needs. Sessions emphasize clear goals, skills practice, and real-world problem solving. Shauna often uses cognitive tools to reframe unhelpful thoughts and behavioral strategies to test new ways of living.

She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills when feelings are intense. Emotionally-focused ideas help people understand patterns in close relationships and make changes that improve connection and trust.

Shauna values collaboration and straightforward feedback. People can expect a warm but focused conversation that names what matters and then works toward it. She helps set practical, doable steps and checks progress along the way.

If you are coping with midlife questions, career shifts, grief, or changes in a relationship, Shauna offers a mix of listening and concrete tools. Prospective clients in Texas should confirm current session options before booking.

How these approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting the person’s own goals. It helps when someone needs to feel understood and to clarify what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete strategies to test and change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing midlife stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, builds skills for regulating intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with anger, relationship conflict, and mood swings.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client will talk about problems, goals, and preferences and then choose which methods to try together. Shauna adapts tools over time based on what helps and what feels manageable for the client.

Confirm the exact session options before booking, since formats are not specified here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, offer shorter check-ins when needed, and remove commute time so people can use a break from work more easily. They also let therapists teach skills, review homework, and practice new behaviors between meetings, all with the same focus on practical steps and measurable progress.