Shonnia Spears, LPC

Shonnia Spears is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She focuses on building practical skills and steady support so clients feel more able to cope day to day. Her approach is warm and nonjudgmental, and she meets people where they are.

With seven years of clinical experience, Shonnia uses clear, goal-oriented methods to address challenges like grief, trauma and abuse, anger, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing family problems, adoption and foster care concerns, multicultural issues, and women's or young adult topics. ADHD, LGBT concerns, parenting strain, and relationship stress are other areas she often helps people work through.

Shonnia draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy to shape sessions around each person's needs. She breaks skills into simple steps and practices them together in sessions so coping tools feel doable between meetings.

Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged from Texas. She accepts international clients as well. Her style is collaborative and practical, with attention to immediate concerns and longer-term goals.

People who prefer straightforward guidance and steady encouragement may find her style a good fit. She focuses on helping clients notice what is working, try small changes, and build on successes over time.

Practical therapy approaches for online care

Shonnia often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into manageable steps.

She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening, empathy, and building trust so clients feel heard. That approach helps when someone needs a steady, supportive space to work through feelings. Motivational Interviewing is another tool she may use to help people find and strengthen their own reasons for change, especially around life transitions or habit change.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and tailor methods together. The therapist and client decide collaboratively which techniques to try and adjust as progress is made.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for deeper conversational work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people fit therapy into busy lives.