Shawana Porter is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina with 15 years of experience.
01About Shawana
Shawana Porter is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina with 15 years of experience. She has worked in hospitals, correctional settings, and mental health facilities. Her style is direct and warm, focused on helping people speak their truth and take practical steps forward.
Shawana helps people manage depression, stress, and anxiety. She also supports those facing anger, low self-esteem, motivation struggles, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns.
Background and approach
She treats trauma and abuse and assists people navigating major life changes or compassion fatigue. In the counseling room she uses clear, evidence-based techniques such as cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness to reduce distress. She draws on solution-focused ideas to identify small, useful changes that build momentum.
Family systems and client-centered methods guide how she listens and frames problems. Sessions are oriented toward real-world results. Shawana helps clients set manageable goals, practice new skills between meetings, and measure progress.
She encourages people to tell their story and to rewrite the parts that no longer serve them. Her background across clinical settings informs a practical, no-nonsense approach that still makes room for empathy. People who want straightforward guidance, tools they can use at home, and a counselor who will challenge and support them may find her style a good match.
02Credentials
- LPC (South Carolina)
- License 6519 · expires August 2027
- NPI
- 1043959844 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Shawana lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Young adult issues
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04Online support
Evidence-based methods and flexible online care
Shawana commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety and depression. These methods focus on specific skills and experiments you can practice between sessions.She also incorporates mindfulness approaches that teach simple attention and breathing practices. Mindfulness helps people notice reactions and reduce reactivity to stress. Solution-focused ideas are used to set small, achievable goals and track visible progress over time.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Shawana will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust methods that fit the person’s needs and preferences. She aims to build a plan together rather than imposing a single method.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or work better with low bandwidth, and messaging lets people share thoughts between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to keep appointments, practice skills in real time, and keep momentum during life’s busy stretches.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, self-esteem, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, grief, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and LGBT-related concerns.
What is her general approach in sessions?
Shawana uses clear, evidence-based techniques and focuses on practical steps. Sessions often combine skill practice, problem solving, and reflective conversation.
What is her professional background?
She has 15 years of professional experience and has worked in hospitals, correctional settings, and mental health facilities.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds a license as a Professional Counselor in South Carolina and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
How does cost and getting started work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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