About Shayna
Shayna Pannuzzo is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey. She brings six years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and depression. Shayna emphasizes clients' strengths and encourages steps toward a more fulfilling life.
She uses straightforward, evidence-informed approaches to tackle everyday problems. Sessions often include practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to address intense emotions and unhelpful thinking.
How Shayna works
Mindfulness exercises and motivational conversations are used to build steadiness and focus. Shayna has a background supporting people who are neurodivergent and those with developmental or intellectual diagnoses. She also works with concerns such as ADHD, bipolar mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, panic, and social anxiety.
Her experience includes addressing caregiver stress, isolation, and challenges after brain injury. In therapy Shayna listens first and then helps set clear, achievable goals. She breaks larger problems into small steps and teaches coping strategies that can be used between sessions.
Practical skill-building is paired with checking in about what matters most to each person. People can expect a collaborative, nonjudgmental approach that values their knowledge of their own life. Shayna supports parents managing parenting strain and people coping with relationship and communication problems.
Her work is aimed at improving day-to-day functioning and emotional resilience.
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What Shayna works with
The areas below are the ones Shayna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
How evidence-based approaches translate to online therapy
Shayna commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in her online practice. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence, which helps reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. DBT teaches emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills that are useful for intense feelings and impulsivity.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to priorities, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what works best for the person's goals and preferences. Clients and the therapist decide together which skills to practice and which strategies to emphasize.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps recreate a face-to-face session and is good for skills coaching. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, written coaching, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and keep progress moving forward.
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