About Shauna
Shauna Figueroa is a licensed clinician with two decades of experience in Maryland. She holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with LCSW and LCSW-C credentials. Shauna focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, relationship struggles, and addiction concerns.
Shauna draws on practical, person-focused methods to help people name feelings and try new ways of coping. Sessions tend to be straightforward and conversational.
How Shauna works
She aims to create a calm, accepting space where people can feel heard and begin to make small changes. Her work includes approaches such as Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, the Gottman Method, and Mindfulness Therapy. These approaches guide how she explores thoughts, emotions, and patterns that keep people stuck.
Shauna has helped people manage a wide range of concerns over 20 years, including grief, parenting stress, sleeping problems, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and intimacy or communication issues. She also supports people facing family of origin issues, abandonment, adoption and foster care topics, and substance use struggles. She emphasizes collaboration and coaching-style support when needed.
People who want a therapist who listens closely and offers clear, practical steps often find her style useful.
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What Shauna works with
The areas below are the ones Shauna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCSW-C, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what a person says so they can find their own solutions; it helps with feeling understood and building self-trust. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and change interaction patterns that create distance in relationships and can improve emotional connection.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Shauna will work with each person to pick methods that fit their needs and goals. She uses collaboration to adapt techniques over time so sessions feel relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and hold richer conversations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or quick tools between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep regular contact with a licensed professional.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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