About Shayla
Shayla Pattillo is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship strain, grief, and struggles with self-esteem and addiction. She speaks directly and calmly, and she aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone under pressure. Shayla uses clear conversation and practical tools in sessions.
She listens, asks focused questions, and offers techniques drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and solution-focused work.
Background and approach
Those methods are used to build coping skills, reduce overwhelming thoughts, and set small, doable goals. Her approach centers on the person in front of her. Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented, with attention to what the client values and hopes to change.
Mindfulness practices and client-centered listening also appear in her work to help people notice patterns and try new behaviors. Shayla trained and practiced in counseling and education roles for several years before holding her LPC license in Texas. That background informs how she explains things plainly and helps clients build everyday strategies they can use outside sessions.
She also supports people dealing with parenting challenges, postpartum concerns, body image issues, codependency, and life transitions. When someone wants steady support and concrete steps to feel better, Shayla focuses on small changes that add up over time. Clients who prefer different formats can meet by video, phone, chat, or text messaging.
Shayla works in English and serves people located in Texas.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Shayla commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and testing small changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes clarifying personal values and taking committed action, which can help with motivation, stress, and ADHD-related struggles.The best approach often combines methods and is decided together. Shayla views therapy as a collaborative process where she and the client try different techniques, check what helps, and adjust the plan based on goals and preferences. That way the approach fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quicker check-in, and messaging supports brief reflections or ongoing journaling between meetings. These options create flexibility for attending sessions from work breaks, home routines, or while traveling, and they let the client choose what feels most practical for their needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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