Shayla Pattillo, LPC

Shayla Pattillo is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, and struggles with self-esteem and addiction. She also supports people facing trauma, grief, eating and body image issues, postpartum concerns, ADHD, and anger. Shayla uses straightforward, compassionate listening to help people take small, meaningful steps forward.

She keeps sessions practical. Shayla asks focused questions, listens closely, and offers tools people can use between meetings. She draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, solution-focused techniques, mindfulness, and a client-centered stance to shape work that fits each person.

Her background includes work in counseling and education roles across Texas. That experience exposed her to a wide range of life problems and ways people try to cope. Shayla brings three years as a Licensed Professional Counselor to her practice and applies lessons learned from earlier roles when planning treatment.

In the room she aims to strengthen a person’s inner voice and confidence. Sessions often involve identifying unhelpful thoughts or patterns, trying small behavior shifts, and practicing present-moment awareness. Practical homework and short-term goals are common parts of the process.

She is available for sessions conducted in English and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works for the person seeking support.

Approaches that guide online work

Shayla uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy alongside client-centered skills to guide online sessions. CBT focuses on spotting and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and mood shifts by breaking problems into specific, manageable steps. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and then choose actions that match their values to move forward.

She treats finding the right way to work as a team effort. During early sessions she will ask about goals and preferences and try out methods that fit the person’s needs. Together they decide whether to focus more on thought work, values-based action, mindfulness, or short-term solution steps as therapy unfolds.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text work well for brief check-ins or when someone prefers written reflection. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain steady progress through different formats.