About Shayna
Shayna Schaefer is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She works with adults to improve self-esteem, handle life changes, and work through trauma and grief. Sessions are conversational and aimed at practical change over time.
She blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, existential ideas, and a client-centered stance. That mix helps people notice what matters, shift unhelpful thinking, and build habits that match their values.
How Shayna works
Sessions focus on skills you can apply between meetings as well as deeper emotional work. Shayna has long experience supporting concerns tied to family roles, parenting stress, intimacy, eating and body-image issues, and career transitions. She also addresses challenges like bipolar mood changes, ADHD, dissociation, and adjustment after separation or loss.
Her practice includes attention to adoption and foster care histories, attachment issues, and aging-related matters. She offers therapy in both English and Spanish and practices in Delaware as a DE LCSW. Shayna uses a collaborative, person-centered style that invites honest conversation and shared decision making about goals and strategies.
She aims to make sessions feel practical and understandable. People typically leave sessions with a clear next step, whether that is a behavioral experiment, a mindfulness exercise, or a new way to talk with someone important. Shayna helps clients track progress and adjust plans as life evolves.
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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
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Delaware |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are difficult. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where direction feels unclear. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought patterns and testing them with real-world experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It often includes brief exercises to practice between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist follows the person's lead and supports them in finding their own answers.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Shayna collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, strengths, and preferences. This means trying an approach, checking how it feels, and adjusting the plan together as progress unfolds.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit care into a busy life. Video sessions work well for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a short break at work or quieter surroundings, and text or chat are good for brief check-ins or when on-the-go. These formats increase flexibility and help people access consistent support without long commutes.
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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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