Shay is a licensed professional counselor in the state of Texas through the State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors (License #84335). He gained the status of ADHD- Certified Clinical Services Provider through Evergreen Certifications (Number 932916) November of 2023. He works with a variety of demographics. Many of Shay’s clients come in when their inner roadblocks and insecurities do not allow them to live the life that they deserve. Shay is particularly passionate about serving adults with many backgrounds, including diverse populations. They also have advanced training in the area of anxiety, depression, mental health disorders. He implements modalities to increase self-esteem/self-worth like strength-based, positive-psychology, and solution focused approaches.

In addition, Shay is trained in multiple treatment approaches and uses  a person-centered approach to meet the client’s needs. In session, Shay focuses on the client’s personal journey through life by providing a safe and supportive environment to help the client develop individualized coping strategies to increase their cognitive restructuring. This approach supports clients to open doorways leading to their path for personal growth while implementing tools and skills to eliminate the doubts and worries.

Shay’s style is free of judgment, full of compassion, and dedicated to helping client’s discover how to break through mental barriers limiting results and guide their true potential when life throws them a curve ball. When a client first comes in, Shay is passionate about learning and growing beside a client when struggling with mental barriers and interested in contributing to developing goals to remove those anxieties, worries, doubts, and fears.

Shay received his master’s in clinical psychology with an emphasis in clinical counseling and a Doctor of Philosophy in counseling studies. He gained experience in multiple mental health areas from applied behavior approaches to mental health approaches to substance use recovery approaches which enables him to provide a wide range of skills and tools to better cope with everyday stressors and meet emotional needs to maintain and find balance in the client’s mental health journey.

Shay offers online therapy, also known as e-therapy, e-counseling, teletherapy, or cyber-counseling that involves providing mental wellbeing services and support over the internet. Services can be offered through email, text messaging, videoconferencing, online chat, or messaging.

Outside of private practice, he enjoys painting, writing, drawing, gardening, video games, spending quality time with family, friends, and his amazing pets, and practices daily gratitude through acknowledging that every individual has a story to share and is worth being heard.