About Shawna
Shawna Powell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 23 years of clinical experience. She decided to become a therapist after using her own life experiences to connect with and help others recover from severe events. Shawna focuses on helping people move beyond survival so they can find renewed purpose and better daily functioning.
She draws on a range of methods rather than one fixed protocol. Shawna listens to each person’s story and treats them as the expert on their own life.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and practical, aimed at real change in everyday life. Shawna commonly works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and abuse, and addiction-related concerns. She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and major life transitions.
Additional areas include attachment issues, body image, chronic pain or illness, caregiving strain, and dissociation. Her clinical approach blends body-centered work with acceptance and cognitive strategies. That allows attention to physical signals alongside thoughts and values.
The result is a focus on what helps a person feel steadier and more able to cope. Shawna is based in Colorado and provides care in English. She aims to support people who want to rebuild after hard experiences and enhance their day-to-day wellbeing.
Therapeutic approaches and remote care
Shawna blends somatic-informed work with acceptance and attachment-focused methods to support healing. Somatic work pays attention to the body and physical sensations, helping people notice and respond to stress and trauma stored in the body. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) centers on values and willingness, helping people take meaningful actions even when difficult thoughts or feelings remain present. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships so people can build safer, more satisfying connections.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Shawna will discuss what matters most to the client, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan over time. This helps align therapy with a person’s goals and comfort level rather than following a fixed path.
Online sessions make that collaborative work practical and flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, while phone, live chat, and text-based messaging offer alternatives for different schedules or comfort levels. These formats can make it easier to attend regularly, stay consistent during life changes, and use therapy tools between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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