About Shawna
Shawna Powell is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 23 years of clinical experience. She became a therapist after using her own life experience to support others who have endured traumatic events. Shawna believes people can move beyond survival toward a fuller life, and she brings that commitment to each session.
She began her path during a Master’s level internship where personal experience and professional training came together. That early work inspired her focus on healing after trauma and motivated her toward social change.
How Shawna works
Over two decades she has expanded her approach and learned from many client stories. Shawna uses an eclectic mix of methods chosen to fit each person. She meets people where they are and treats them as the expert on their own life.
Sessions are practical and focused on skills, values, and building better daily routines. Areas she addresses include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, self-esteem, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes. She also helps with compassion fatigue and a range of related concerns such as attachment issues, codependency, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Shawna works with clients to set clear goals and practice tools between meetings. She encourages small, steady steps toward a more manageable, meaningful life.
Shawna lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Shawna works with
The areas below are the ones Shawna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values despite painful thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, grief, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of connecting and regulating emotions. It is often helpful for intimacy-related issues, attachment difficulties, and relationship concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments while teaching practical coping skills for anxiety, depression, and mood swings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shawna will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time and makes room for the client to guide what feels most helpful.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video helps recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep working on goals from wherever someone is located in Colorado.
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