About Shawna
Shawna Powell is a licensed professional counselor with 23 years of experience helping people rebuild after hard events. She became a counselor after using her own experiences to find purpose in helping others move beyond survival and toward a fuller life. Shawna practices in Colorado and works to meet people where they are in their journey.
She uses a mix of approaches rather than a single method. In sessions she listens closely and treats each person as the expert on their life.
Background and approach
That means practical conversations about coping skills and small changes you can try between meetings. Shawna often helps with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction issues, and trauma and abuse. She also supports people facing relationship and intimacy-related concerns, parenting strain, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and life transitions.
Additional areas of focus include attachment struggles, abandonment wounds, body image, and dissociation. Her style is direct and compassionate. She aims to build a working plan together that fits your goals and daily life.
Sessions balance emotional processing with concrete tools to manage symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. People who prefer a collaborative, experienced counselor may find her approach useful. She invites clients to take part in shaping their care and to try approaches that feel relevant and practical for their situation.
Therapeutic approaches that fit online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, committed steps toward them. It helps when anxiety, depression, or life changes make it hard to move forward. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current connections and helps people rebuild trust and closeness in relationships. Client-Centered Therapy centers on a nonjudgmental, listening stance so people can explore feelings and make their own changes.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, strengths, and preferences and then try methods that match those needs. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for longer therapy work and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone works well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins or steady support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English