About Shiona
Shiona Severson is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She writes and speaks in straightforward terms and aims to make therapy feel practical and approachable. Shiona centers sessions on the person's lived experience and strengths, not on labels or judgments.
Shiona draws from emotion-focused methods and somatic work rooted in attachment ideas to guide sessions. She helps people notice how feelings shape actions and relationships, and works with them to develop clearer responses.
Background and approach
When appropriate, she may use eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to address traumatic memories. Early meetings are used to get to know each person and to explain how the chosen approach will be applied. She outlines mutual expectations so people understand what to expect from sessions.
If the fit does not feel right, she offers help finding another therapist. Her approach is practical and relationship-based. Sessions often involve naming feelings, tracking patterns, and practicing new ways to respond.
She also draws on somatic techniques to support people who feel stuck in their bodies after trauma or intense stress. Shiona has four years of clinical experience and holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential. She works with adults dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment concerns, codependency, issues around infidelity and non-monogamous relationships, and behavioral process addictions like problematic porn or gambling.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
How emotion-focused and somatic work translate online
Shiona uses emotion-focused methods to help people identify and work with strong feelings that affect thinking and behavior. That approach centers on naming emotions, tracing where they come from, and practicing new responses to reduce reactivity. She also uses somatic approaches that attend to bodily sensations tied to stress or trauma, helping people notice physical cues and try grounding or regulation strategies.She treats selecting an approach as a collaborative process. Together the therapist and client review goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up, then decide which methods to emphasize. The plan can change over time based on what feels useful and what produces progress.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls allow face-to-face work and support body-based exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let people share notes and reflections between sessions or use a quicker format when writing feels safer. These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into daily life and keep therapeutic momentum going.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English