About Shaun
Shaun Cunningham is a licensed mental health practitioner (LMHP) with 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and challenges tied to family or parenting. Shaun also assists those dealing with trauma and abuse, addictions, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
She uses simple, direct language in sessions and aims to make therapy feel straightforward. Shaun listens first, then helps clients set small goals. She draws on practical techniques to manage anger, sleeping problems, ADHD-related struggles, and self-esteem concerns.
How Shaun works
Her background includes long clinical experience in Nebraska working with many kinds of life problems. Shaun blends different ways of working to match what each person needs. That can mean short-term plans for coping or deeper work into patterns that repeat over time.
Shaun commonly addresses relationship issues, communication problems, codependency, and blended family tensions. She also supports people coping with loss, forgiveness, abandonment issues, and the stresses of caregiving or first responder roles. Sessions often include mindfulness exercises, problem-solving steps, and talking through past and present patterns.
Shaun uses techniques from client-centered, cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, and motivational approaches to help people find paths forward. Her style is practical, steady, and aimed at helping people make workable changes. People who want to begin select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire.
From there they schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Shaun lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Shaun works with
The areas below are the ones Shaun selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Nebraska |
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Online support options
How Shaun uses therapy approaches online
Shaun commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, understanding each person's perspective, and building a trusting working relationship. It helps when someone needs acceptance and clearer self-understanding. CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches specific exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns.Shaun also draws on mindfulness practices to help reduce reactivity and improve focus. Mindfulness involves short exercises to notice the body and breath and can support sleeping problems, anger management, and stress. Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Shaun will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan as progress is seen.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work through issues face to face when schedules allow. Phone sessions can fit a tighter schedule or lower bandwidth needs. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, tracking progress, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to use different formats as needs change.
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