- Addictions focus
- Life purpose exploration
- CBT and solution work
About Shawna
Shawna Lupori is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with eight years of clinical practice. She works with people facing addiction and mental health concerns and helps with stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Shawna also addresses relationship and family tensions, grief, intimacy issues, parenting stress, and anger.
Before becoming an LPC Shawna spent many years in human services, which gave her experience supporting adults across different life stages and with co-occurring mental health and addiction concerns. That background shapes how she responds to practical problems like career strain, codependency, and blended family challenges.
Shawna uses several therapy methods in session. She draws on client-centered techniques to listen and reflect. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking and adjust behaviors. Motivational Interviewing helps when people are stuck about change.
Her sessions often focus on concrete steps and decisions. She works with clients to set small, achievable goals. Conversations can cover communication skills, boundary-setting, managing cravings, and coping during major transitions.
People who come to Shawna for help with life purpose or a midlife crisis can expect direct questions about values and priorities. She offers practical tools and short-term strategies as well as deeper reflection when needed. To begin, she asks about current struggles, what has helped before, and what the client wants to try next.
How Shawna’s approaches translate to online work
Shawna commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in sessions. Client-Centered Therapy centers on careful listening and reflecting back what matters most to the client, which helps when deciding next steps in work, relationships, or parenting. CBT looks for patterns in thoughts and behaviors and provides concrete techniques to test and change them, useful for anxiety, depression, or problem eating.She also uses Motivational Interviewing when people feel unsure about change. That approach focuses on exploring ambivalence and helping someone find their own reasons to try new behaviors, often used for addictions and recovery goals.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Shawna will discuss goals, preferences, and practical needs with each person and together decide which methods to emphasize. The plan can shift as progress and priorities change.
The biography does not specify session formats, so please confirm current online options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can schedule appointments around work or caregiving. Licensed professionals commonly adapt conversation-based tools and CBT exercises to remote sessions to keep work focused and practical.
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Experience
8+ years
Listed in
Pennsylvania
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she work with?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, grief, relationship and family problems, parenting strain, eating and intimacy issues, anger, career questions, compassion fatigue, and life purpose concerns.
How would she approach feeling stuck or directionless?
She uses client-centered listening, CBT to spot unhelpful thoughts, and motivational interviewing to build readiness for change. Sessions mix reflection with practical steps to try between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
Shawna has eight years as an LPC and more than two decades working in human services before and alongside clinical practice.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania and practices from that state.
In what languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English only and she is not accepting international clients.
What session formats are used?
The original biography does not list session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
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