Shaiuana Okoro, LPC

Shaiuana Okoro is a licensed professional counselor who uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction-related concerns. She creates a direct and compassionate space where clients can speak honestly about what they are feeling and thinking.

She focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier. Sessions often include looking at unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small, doable changes. This approach helps with mood disorders, social anxiety, and coping with life changes.

Shaiuana also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy and client-centered techniques. That means she helps people notice what matters most to them and build actions that match their values. She encourages mindfulness skills to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness.

Her practice supports people facing relationship strain, grief, intimacy concerns, or challenges tied to identity and LGBT issues. She also assists with addiction recovery, communication problems, and managing anger or guilt.

With five years of experience as an LPC in Texas, Shaiuana combines practical tools with steady listening. She works with each person to find what fits their life and goals. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make that step clearer and more manageable.

How evidence-based approaches translate to online care

Shaiuana uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and low mood. CBT is goal-oriented and focuses on practical skills that people can try between sessions.

She also integrates acceptance and commitment therapy, which helps people clarify values and take actions that match what matters to them. Client-centered work shapes sessions around each person’s experience, offering steady listening and collaboration.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about symptoms, goals, and preferences, and then try strategies that feel like a good fit. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can work for brief check-ins or steps between longer meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily demands.