About Shaiuana
Shaiuana Okoro is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who uses practical, person-focused therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and ADHD. She aims to make the first steps feel manageable and supportive so people can talk about what matters most to them. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space for clients to share thoughts and feelings.
Sessions focus on day-to-day coping skills and real-life steps rather than long lectures.
Background and approach
She listens closely and works with each person to set clear, usable goals. Her approach draws on methods that help change unhelpful thinking, build emotional skills, and increase present-moment awareness. That means practicing skills during sessions and trying them between meetings.
Many clients work on handling difficult emotions, reducing anxiety, and managing cravings or compulsive behaviors. Okoro also supports people facing relationship struggles, grief, intimacy concerns, and identity-related stress. She pays attention to how communication and past experiences affect current patterns.
Conversations often include ways to practice better boundaries and clearer communication. With five years of clinical experience in Texas, she blends straightforward feedback with empathy. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit each person’s needs.
The aim is steady progress toward more control, connection, and confidence.
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to values-driven actions; it can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and managing ADHD-related task barriers. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on providing a nonjudgmental, empathetic space so clients feel heard and can explore their goals at their own pace.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to a person’s goals, preferences, and daily demands. Sessions are collaborative, with check-ins to adjust focus and try different strategies until something fits.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people connect face to face; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited; quick live chat or text check-ins work well for brief updates and skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting sessions into work, school, or caregiving routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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