About Shayna
Shayna Strauch is a California-based licensed professional counselor, LPCC, with four years of clinical experience. She focuses on common life stresses like anxiety, relationship strain, career uncertainty, and depression. Shayna aims to make the first step feel manageable and affirms the courage it takes to begin therapy.
Her work centers on practical conversation and steady problem-solving. She helps people talk through relationship communication, rebuild trust, and strengthen emotional connections. She also supports individuals facing life transitions, such as changes at work, new roles at home, or shifting health needs.
Background and approach
Shayna pays attention to the everyday effects of stress and chronic conditions. She assists people coping with chronic pain, illness, caregiving demands, and aging-related concerns. She also addresses concerns around body image, fertility and pregnancy challenges, postpartum depression, and end-of-life matters.
The sessions are straightforward and collaborative. Shayna listens, reflects what she hears, and offers tools that can be tried between sessions. She adapts practical strategies to each person’s situation and values small, achievable steps toward change.
She provides care in English and practices in California. Her approach emphasizes clear goals, improved communication, and handling life’s practical burdens. For many, the focus becomes feeling steadier day to day and gaining better ways to manage the problems that matter most.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Shayna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on real-world change. One common approach she employs emphasizes improving communication and trust within relationships by teaching clear listening skills and practical ways to express needs. This helps people reduce repeated arguments and feel more understood. Another approach targets stress and anxiety with short, actionable strategies like breath work, activity planning, and breaking problems into smaller steps to make day-to-day life feel more manageable.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Shayna works together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts tools so therapy stays relevant to what matters right now.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different routines. Video is useful for face-to-face connection, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit quick check-ins or tight schedules. These options let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, and health-related constraints while keeping progress steady.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English