Shawana Porter
Calm, practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shawana
Shawana Porter is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina with 15 years of clinical experience. She has worked in hospitals, correctional settings, and mental health facilities. Shawana focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and relationship challenges.
She also supports clients facing grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, and issues affecting LGBT and family life. Shawana uses practical, evidence-based methods in sessions. She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques help clients stay present and reduce reactivity. Solution-focused ideas guide short-term goal setting, while family systems perspectives look at how relationships affect problems. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented.
Shawana aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can tell their story and decide what comes next. She often works on building confidence, anger management skills, and coping strategies for life changes. Her background across varied settings informs a flexible style.
That experience helps when supporting issues like aging and geriatric concerns, sexual assault and abuse, and challenges young adults face. The focus is on practical steps clients can use between sessions. Shawana frames therapy as a collaborative process.
She supports each person as they set priorities and try new skills. The aim is clearer choices, better coping, and steady progress toward the life a client wants.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Shawana uses a few well-established methods that translate well to online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness techniques teach simple attention and relaxation skills to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation. Family Systems ideas look at how relationships and roles affect problems and can guide changes in communication and boundaries.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Shawana will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions are useful when video is not an option, and live chat or text messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum when life gets in the way.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
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- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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