About Shay
Shay Williams is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 15 years of clinical practice. He focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship and family concerns, grief, anger, and attention-related challenges such as ADHD. He trained in counseling and guidance and later supervised other counselors.
Shay draws on long experience with adults who face mood disorders, trauma and abuse, and the everyday strains of parenting and caregiving.
Background and approach
He also works with people dealing with impulsivity, substance use, and the ripple effects of adoption or foster care histories. In sessions he looks at patterns rather than labels. He helps people notice how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together and affect day-to-day life.
Conversations include identifying unhelpful self-talk, exploring past influences, and deciding small steps toward change. Shay uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. That can mean learning a few new coping skills, practicing calmer responses to stress, or building clearer communication habits with others.
His style is straightforward and goal-oriented, while staying attentive to how relationships and early experiences shape current struggles. Parents and caregivers often come for help with overwhelming responsibilities, parenting stress, or mood changes. Shay aims to make progress feel achievable by breaking goals into simple, concrete steps and tracking small wins along the way.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why certain interactions feel familiar and how to build healthier ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful thinking and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when impulses or strong feelings get in the way.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Shay collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and daily life. Together they try strategies, check what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made. This keeps work grounded and focused on real improvements.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows real-time check-ins, and messaging supports quick updates or brief reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work consistently despite travel or distance.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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