Shawna Theriot , LCSW

Shawna Theriot is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 22 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. Shawna aims to create clear goals and steady progress in short, practical steps.

She draws on client-centered techniques to keep the person’s needs central. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to help with emotion regulation and grounding.

Shawna has worked across settings including community programs and private practice in Texas. Her background includes supporting people who have experienced foster care, trauma, caregiving strain, aging-related change, and grief. She also has experience with body image concerns and challenges tied to blended families and fatherhood issues.

Sessions often include straightforward skill building, guided reflection, and storytelling work to reframe difficult experiences. Motivational interviewing is used when people are weighing change and want to find their own reasons to move forward. Art and music can be included when a person prefers nonverbal ways to process feelings.

Shawna emphasizes practical tools that fit daily life. She works with people nine and older and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Her practice is based in Texas and sessions are conducted in English.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's lead. In online sessions this means building the conversation around what matters most to the client and adapting interventions to their goals.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to challenge unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. Online CBT often uses worksheets, brief experiments between sessions, and focused practice to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms.

Mindfulness Therapy brings attention to the present moment through simple practices like breathing and body awareness. These exercises can be guided in a video call or offered as short audio or text prompts for between-session practice.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences rather than imposing a single style.

Online sessions offer practical flexibility: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for a quicker check-in, or text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and keep progress moving forward.