About Therese
Therese Shumaker offers a calm, person-centered approach for people facing anxiety, depression, stress, and eating concerns. She uses clear, practical methods to help people feel heard and to build tools for daily life. Therese holds an LPCC, which is the Minnesota Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor credential, and brings ten years of experience to her work.
In sessions she focuses on listening first. She helps clients name patterns that keep them stuck and then tries simple steps to shift those patterns.
Background and approach
The work often includes building coping skills, improving communication, and finding small changes that lead to steadier days. Therese pays attention to issues that often sit beneath the surface. She supports people dealing with guilt, shame, control issues, or the loneliness that can come with life transitions.
She also helps with caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and problems around self-care and self-love. Her practical methods draw from client-centered practice, cognitive behavioral ideas, and mindfulness. She also uses motivational interviewing to help with behavior change and solution-focused techniques to set clear, achievable goals.
These approaches are used together in ways that fit each person's situation. Therese works with adults from Minnesota and provides sessions in English. She aims to make therapy feel manageable by moving at the client’s pace and focusing on real steps people can use between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs. It emphasizes understanding a person’s experience and following their lead to set the focus of sessions, which helps when sorting through feelings like anxiety or depression.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. In online sessions this can mean identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying different behaviors between sessions, and tracking small wins to reduce stress and improve mood.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These brief practices are easy to try in a video call or to use between text check-ins for steadying day-to-day stress.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a person's goals, needs, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for deeper conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or comfort with video is limited, live chat for short check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Depression
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English