About Shay
Shay Bankston is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) with 20 years of clinical experience in Ohio. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. She creates an affirming space for people from diverse backgrounds, including LGBTQ+ individuals and first responders.
Shay pays close attention to concerns like panic attacks, social anxiety, isolation, and post-traumatic stress. ADHD is also listed among her focus areas and is part of the concerns she addresses.
Background and approach
Her style is collaborative and person-centered. Sessions focus on practical coping tools, clear goals, and steady skill building. Shay works with clients to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning through step-by-step planning and practice.
She also helps with relationship stress, grief, intimacy issues, and parenting challenges. Additional areas she addresses include addiction, hoarding, control issues, and compassion fatigue. Career concerns and coaching are part of her work as well.
Shay draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and a trauma-informed lens. She aims to help people reconnect with their strengths and build routines that support recovery and growth. Her approach centers on listening, clear guidance, and realistic planning.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Shay uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in her work, including trauma-informed interventions that focus on stabilizing symptoms, teaching grounding strategies, and pacing exposure to difficult memories. These methods help people manage symptoms of post-traumatic stress, panic, and intense anxiety.She also emphasizes CBT-style skill building that breaks problems into manageable parts, teaches concrete coping strategies, and helps people test new ways of responding. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and everyday life challenges such as time management and focus concerns commonly seen with ADHD.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shay will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences, and then tailor techniques to fit. The plan can change over time as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and those who prefer remote sessions. Video calls allow face-to-face work when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, between-session coaching, and ongoing problem solving that fit into busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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