Shonda Harris, LPC

Shonda Harris is a licensed professional counselor with 18 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, mood concerns, and life changes. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping clients make clear, manageable changes.

In sessions she explains how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She helps people learn coping skills and build routines that reduce symptom flare-ups and increase stability. Shonda uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and solution-focused methods to set achievable steps toward goals.

She works with people who are dealing with relationship struggles, addiction concerns, grief, trauma, or challenges around intimacy and self-esteem. She also supports those managing ADHD, bipolar disorder, and career or parenting stresses. Shonda pays attention to attachment and family of origin issues when they affect daily life.

Shonda describes her approach as nonjudgmental and collaborative. Sessions are aimed at figuring out what a client wants to change and then testing practical steps. She encourages clear communication, problem-solving, and breaking bigger goals into small tasks.

Shonda provides services from Texas and conducts sessions in English. She offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging formats so people can choose what fits their routines. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step is used to connect a person with her.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Shonda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. CBT focuses on practical exercises and homework tasks that target anxiety, depression, and mood problems. Solution-Focused Therapy is also part of her work and centers on identifying strengths, setting clear short-term goals, and trying small steps that move a person toward what they want.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will listen to a person's needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. That plan can be adjusted as progress is tracked and new priorities emerge, making the process collaborative and flexible.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video allows face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat works well for brief check-ins, and messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiver schedules while keeping focus on practical skills and goal progress.