About Pneurissa
Pneurissa Stamps offers a gentle, person-focused therapy style that centers the client's experience. As an LCPC (Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor) practicing in Illinois, she focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, self-esteem, and depression. Her approach aims to help people feel heard and find practical steps toward change.
She blends client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral strategies to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors. Mindfulness techniques are used to reduce intense emotions and increase present-moment awareness.
Background and approach
Psychodynamic ideas can help uncover long-standing patterns tied to family of origin and attachment issues. Pneurissa also uses solution-focused tools to set small, achievable goals. This can be useful when someone needs immediate coping skills for panic, mood swings, or overwhelming stress.
Her work addresses trauma and abuse with care and attention to how past wounds affect current life. She pays attention to issues such as abandonment, codependency, dissociation, and problems with communication. Topics like guilt, shame, forgiveness, life purpose, and self-harm are also included in her focus areas.
Sessions are framed around clear, doable steps rather than long abstract discussions. Pneurissa brings seven years of clinical experience to her practice. She works in English and serves clients located in Illinois.
The tone of her work is warm and faith-affirming when that is important to the person seeking help.
Approaches that translate to online care
Pneurissa uses client-centered therapy to create a listening space where people feel understood. This approach focuses on the person's experience and helps them identify their own goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and to try practical changes that reduce anxiety and mood symptoms.She may also use mindfulness practices to help people manage intense emotions and stay present during stressful moments. These approaches work well in online sessions because they emphasize skills and conversations that can be practiced between meetings. Choosing the right approach is a shared process - the therapist and client look at goals, preferences, and what has worked before to decide which methods to try first.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options let people fit care around work, family, and daily routines while still using structured therapeutic methods.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English