About Pneurissa
Pneurissa Stamps is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with seven years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and mood concerns. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps toward feeling safer and more steady. Her work emphasizes clear goals and steady progress rather than jargon or lengthy labels.
She uses a mix of client-centered and cognitive behavioral techniques to address panic, low self-esteem, and depression.
How Pneurissa works
That means sessions often start by listening closely, then trying small experiments and new ways of thinking that reduce distress. Mindfulness practices are used to build calm when worry or panic feels overwhelming. Trauma-focused and psychodynamic ideas inform how she looks at long-standing patterns like attachment wounds, abandonment fears, and family-of-origin problems.
Those approaches help uncover how past events shape current reactions and relationships. Sessions move at a pace a person finds manageable. Pneurissa pays attention to how anger, guilt, and shame show up in daily life and decision making.
She also addresses codependency, communication problems, dissociation, and domestic violence impacts in individual work. Practical skills are paired with reflection so people can change habits and feel more in control. Her style is straightforward and compassionate.
She explains options, checks in about what’s helpful, and adjusts the plan as progress is made. Sessions are offered in English to residents of Illinois.
Pneurissa lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Pneurissa works with
The areas below are the ones Pneurissa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Pneurissa commonly uses client-centered therapy, which starts with listening and reflecting so a person feels understood. In online sessions this looks like focused conversation and paced check-ins to identify what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety or panic; that work adapts well to video or phone sessions with homework between meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, symptoms, and daily life. That means trying an approach, checking how it feels, and shifting course if something isn’t helpful so progress is steady and personalized.
Online formats offer practical advantages. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and visible cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a workday break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around a busy life.
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