Your decision to allow me into your life is a privilege. My first goal as your therapist will be to settle any uncertainties that you might have in trusting me to be a safe person to share your challenges, hopes, and desires for your life with. It is my role to be an unbiased, caring, and reliable professional who will support you in your efforts towards moving forward, healing, and reaching your goals.
I am a licensed clinical therapist (LPC) in Pennsylvania and board certified by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NCC). I am also a Certified Advanced Alcohol & Drug Counselor though the Pennsylvania Certification Board. I have 20+ years of human services experience working with a diversity of populations including young adults, adults, aging seniors, and persons with mental health and addiction co-occurring diagnoses.
I work with clients with a wide range of concerns. My primary expertise is in addiction and mental health. My other areas of counseling competency include depression, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, grief and loss, career challenges, intimacy-related issues, anger management, and coping with life changes.
My counseling approach will be catered to your specific individual needs and preferences. Some of my most used therapy approaches include: Christian Counseling, Addictions Counseling/Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Person Centered Therapy, and Trauma Informed Care. I often use Existential therapy which targets the underlying factors that cause internal conflict within.
The thing that I want you to know more than anything else about me is that I am FOR YOU. I am rooting for you to build upon your strengths while you learn to use your weaknesses as steppingstones – leading you to come OUT of your issue(s) and come IN to the NEW YOU - a new way of thinking and a new life!
Additional areas of focus: Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Eating disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Career difficulties, Compassion fatigue, Blended family issues, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Communication problems, Control issues, Divorce and separation, Drug and alcohol addiction, Eating and food-related issues, Emptiness, Family problems, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Midlife crisis, Multicultural concerns, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Personality disorders, Prejudice and discrimination, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-love, Smoking / vaping cessation, Women's issues, Workplace issues, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy
PA LPC PC012645
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Shawna is great.
Written on Jun 08, 2022 after therapy with Shawna for 2 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, adhd, and sleeping disorders