About Shobana
Shobana Shanmugavelayutham is a licensed clinical professional counselor practicing in Illinois. She brings five years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She emphasizes a strengths-based view and believes people know their own story best.
She uses practical talk and simple tools to help people feel steadier day to day. Sessions focus on building confidence, improving coping skills, and addressing motivation and self-esteem.
How Shobana works
She also supports people facing grief, addiction challenges, anger, and life transitions. Her work includes attention to hospice and end-of-life concerns, immigration-related stress, and multicultural issues that shape how people experience problems. She draws on several approaches to match the work to each person’s needs rather than using a single method for everyone.
In sessions she listens closely and helps people set small, achievable goals. Conversations tend to be direct and collaborative, with strategies that can be practiced between meetings. The pace and focus adapt as progress is made.
Shobana aims to empower people to make changes that matter to them. She supports practical steps toward everyday improvements and helps people build skills they can return to when life gets hard.
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What Shobana works with
The areas below are the ones Shobana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and then focus on values-based action. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical ways to move toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and uses structured practices to change patterns that maintain problems. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and coping skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, focuses on identifying and working with emotional responses and can help people process grief, trauma, and strong emotions like anger.Choosing an approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and needs and then suggest approaches that fit. Plans can change over time as progress is made or priorities shift, and the therapist will check in to make sure the approach still feels useful.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits, phone sessions can be easier when a shorter, simpler check-in is needed, live chat suits quick exchanges, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while accessing licensed professionals.
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