Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Depression
How Shayna works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Delaware
- Years in practice
- 28
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Shayna
Shayna Schaefer is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of experience helping people manage strong emotions and life changes. She uses straightforward, compassionate care to help people build self-respect, better communication, and clearer next steps when things feel overwhelming. Her work includes support for anger concerns alongside stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and grief.
She focuses on what matters day to day. Sessions often center on practical skills for handling intense reactions, improving communication, and making meaningful choices.
Background and approach
Shayna helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck and tries simple strategies to shift those patterns over time. Her approach blends acceptance and commitment ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools, existential perspectives, and mindfulness practices. That mix lets her tailor work to a person’s situation and goals, whether coping with career change, attachment wounds, or complex grief.
Shayna has worked with people facing a wide range of issues across the lifespan, such as parenting stress, adoption and foster care questions, body image, caregiving burdens, and ADHD-related challenges. Her practice addresses both emotional symptoms and the everyday problems those symptoms create. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish from her Delaware practice.
She aims to create a calm, direct space where people can talk through painful events, try new ways of responding, and plan manageable steps forward.
What Shayna works with
Everything Shayna lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Shayna's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Shayna lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- 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.
Approach-driven online therapy for real life struggles
Shayna draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values, which can be useful for anger, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that fuel distress, often used for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. Shayna works with each person to match approaches to their goals and preferences, trying techniques together and adjusting what doesn’t feel helpful. The aim is practical progress rather than fitting a single method to every concern.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can suit quick check-ins or shorter exchanges. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family, or caregiving schedules while keeping the focus on usable tools and steady progress.
Questions people ask about Shayna
What concerns does Shayna address?
She works with many issues including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, grief, anger, and parenting stress. Additional focuses include adoption and foster care, body image, caregiver stress, and ADHD-related concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is collaborative and person-centered, combining listening with practical skill-building. She uses acceptance-based, cognitive, existential, and mindfulness approaches to match each person’s needs.
How much experience does she have?
She has 28 years of clinical experience working with people through life transitions and strong emotions. That background informs a practical, steady approach to therapy.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She holds the LCSW credential - licensed clinical social worker in Delaware. Her practice is based in Delaware.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats does she offer?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as session formats. These options make it possible to choose what fits a person’s schedule and communication style.
How does cost work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Pricing is therefore tied to the subscription chosen.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.