Marshella Stone Davis, LPC

Marshella Stone Davis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas. She draws on two decades of experience to help people tackle stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, addiction concerns, and other life changes. Her style is practical and encouraging, with a focus on helping each person move toward clearer goals and daily improvements.

Marshella uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with client-centered and solution-focused methods. She talks through thoughts and behaviors with clients, then suggests new ways of responding. Short-term skills and concrete change are often part of her work when that fits a person’s goals.

Her approach aims to be direct and respectful. Sessions include exploring current problems, looking at unhelpful thinking, and learning coping tools that can be used between sessions. Marshella emphasizes the client’s strengths and choices while offering guidance and feedback.

Over 24 years she has worked with people facing many struggles, including trauma and abuse, depression, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, eating and body image concerns, and substance issues. She also supports people coping with career strain, aging and caregiver stress, chronic illness concerns, and relationship conflict.

Marshella holds a Master of Education and uses a supportive, goal-oriented stance in therapy. She encourages clients to set realistic steps and practices that fit their daily lives. The work is collaborative, with the client leading the pace and goals.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Marshella uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that get in the way of everyday functioning. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many habit patterns by offering practical tools and structured practice.

She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening, empathy, and building on a person’s strengths. This approach helps clients feel heard while they define their own goals and choose steps that fit their life.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Marshella will work with each client to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. The plan evolves as progress is made and priorities change, and choices are made together in session.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during busy days, live chat is useful for focused check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and daily life while keeping the work collaborative and goal oriented.