Shawna Powell is a licensed professional counselor with 23 years of experience helping people rebuild after painful events.
01About Shawna
Shawna Powell is a licensed professional counselor with 23 years of experience helping people rebuild after painful events. She decided to become a therapist after using her own story to support healing, and she now focuses on practical, hopeful work that helps clients move from surviving to thriving. She begins by listening closely and asking straightforward questions.
Shawna treats each person as the expert on their own life and builds plans together.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on skills you can use between meetings as well as processing what happened. Her approach draws on several therapy styles to fit each person's needs. She uses techniques from acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful patterns.
Attachment-based ideas and client-centered work guide how she helps people feel understood and seen. Shawna has spent much of her career supporting people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. She also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, addictions, and coping with major life changes.
She works with concerns that can include abandonment, attachment wounds, co-morbidity, dissociation, and chronic illness or pain. Her work aims to improve day-to-day functioning and strengthen personal resources. Shawna practices in Colorado and conducts sessions in English.
Her style is direct but warm, focused on practical steps and steady progress that clients can notice in their daily lives.
02Credentials
- LPC (Colorado)
- License LPC.0005618 · expires August 2027
- NPI
- 1942648373 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Shawna lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Methods Shawna names
- 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
These are the methods Shawna names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small committed actions that rebuild a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches tools to shift unhelpful habits, which can reduce anxiety and depression symptoms.Shawna treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit those aims, and adjust the plan as needed. That collaborative process helps clients find what actually works for them.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets you use body language and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging works well for brief ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity when life gets in the way.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and addictions, among other concerns. Relationship strain, parenting stress, and coping with life changes are also common topics.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is collaborative and practical. She listens, treats people as experts on themselves, and focuses on skills you can use between sessions.
How long has she practiced?
She brings 23 years of experience to her work, drawing on many kinds of clinical approaches to match what each person needs.
Where does she practice and what credential does she hold?
She practices in Colorado and is a CO LPC, a licensed professional counselor in Colorado.
Can I work with her in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits your needs.
How does payment work and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start therapy with her?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire, then schedule according to therapist availability.
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