About Shea
Shea Kamp is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with five years of professional experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing relationship strain, grief, trauma, anxiety, and stress. Shea aims to meet people where they are and make the first steps feel easier.
She uses straightforward conversation and a plan shaped to each person's needs. Sessions center on clear goals, skill-building, and honest talk about what is and isn't working.
How Shea works
Shea draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach coping skills for intense emotions and impulsive reactions. Mindfulness practices are incorporated to help people slow down, notice stress, and respond with more awareness. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone wants to change a habit or move toward a different life direction.
These tools are chosen to fit the situation rather than follow a single formula. Shea works with concerns that include family dynamics, parenting stress, addictions, eating issues, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and life transitions. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, blended family issues, hospice and end-of-life counseling, veteran and armed forces issues, and workplace challenges.
Conversations are intended to be respectful, sensitive, and compassionate. Shea tailors both dialogue and the treatment plan to each persons unique circumstances and goals. Taking the step to begin therapy is acknowledged as courageous, and Shea supports people through that process.
Shea lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Shea works with
The areas below are the ones Shea selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Dialectical Behavior Therapy focuses on teaching skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. Online DBT sessions often include practice of grounding, distress tolerance, and communication tools that can be used between appointments.Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice thoughts and bodily sensations without judgment. In remote sessions, mindfulness exercises and short practices are introduced and then tried between meetings to reduce rumination and increase calm.
Motivational Interviewing uses curious, nonjudgmental conversation to clarify a person's goals and build confidence for change. It fits well with online work because brief check-ins and messaging can help track small steps toward those goals.
Shea will work collaboratively to find the right approach based on each person's needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress is made, so the plan can shift if something isn't helping.
Online sessions via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexibility for different routines and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction; phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on busy days; chat or messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still working toward clear goals.
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A practical next step
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