How Shawna works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Shawna
Shawna Lupori is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with eight years of direct clinical experience. She aims to create a steady, respectful space where people can name their struggles and work toward real change. Shawna emphasizes practical steps and honest conversation rather than jargon.
She wants clients to feel understood and supported as they move forward. Shawna focuses on addiction and mental health while also helping with stress, anxiety, depression, and anger.
Background and approach
She also addresses relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, grief, intimacy-related issues, and career or life transition challenges. Her work often includes attention to co-occurring concerns like drug and alcohol addiction, codependency, and eating-related issues. Her sessions draw on a mix of approaches chosen to fit each person's needs.
Shawna uses client-centered methods that keep the person’s goals central. She also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and motivational interviewing techniques when those methods suit the situation. In practical terms, sessions focus on identifying patterns, building coping skills, and setting small, manageable goals.
Shawna helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also supports those working through forgiveness, guilt, isolation, or midlife questions. People who prefer direct guidance combined with empathy may find her style useful.
She works to balance challenge and encouragement so clients can take steady steps toward the life they want. Sessions are offered in English and provided through a range of online formats.
What Shawna works with
Everything Shawna lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Shawna's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Shawna lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online work and progress
Shawna commonly draws from Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting the person's own goals, helping them clarify what matters and build confidence. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals and preferences, try methods that fit those needs, and adjust the plan over time. This means sessions can shift as progress is made or new challenges appear.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, between-session support, or when typed conversation feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still working with licensed professionals and focused treatment approaches.
Questions people ask about Shawna
What concerns does she help with?
Shawna supports people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, anger, grief, relationship and family tensions, parenting strain, intimacy-related issues, and career or life changes.
What is her therapeutic style?
She uses a practical, person-centered style that emphasizes clear goals, coping skills, and honest conversation. Techniques are chosen to fit each person's needs and preferences.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of clinical experience as a practicing counselor in addition to prior human services background.
What credentials and location apply?
She holds the LPC credential and practices in Pennsylvania.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.