About Shauna
Shauna Stimmel is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Idaho. She holds a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and brings eight years of crisis-care experience to her work. Shauna emphasizes each person's strengths while guiding them toward clearer identity and greater resilience.
Shauna uses practical, evidence-informed approaches alongside personal values to help people build meaningful lives. She focuses on reducing stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma symptoms.
How Shauna works
She also helps with parenting concerns, self-esteem, and family-related challenges. Her background includes work with adolescents and adults facing a range of difficulties, including suicidal thoughts, self-harm, addiction, and complex mental health issues. She aims to meet people without judgment and to welcome different belief systems, genders, and sexual orientations.
In sessions, Shauna offers straightforward tools people can use outside therapy. She blends skills training, processing of difficult memories, and reflective conversation so clients can manage symptoms and make steady progress. The goal is practical change and growing self-understanding.
Shauna also supports parents who want clearer communication and help navigating child behaviors and community resources. People who want a collaborative, accepting approach may find her helpful when they are ready to address emotional pain and daily struggles.
Shauna lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Shauna works with
The areas below are the ones Shauna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Idaho |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship. It helps people feel heard and develop their own answers to difficult problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses practical skill-building to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and depression. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a method used to process traumatic memories and lessen the emotional charge they hold.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and needs, then suggest methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and plans can be adjusted as progress unfolds.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It can also support steady skill practice between appointments and make scheduling more flexible for people managing work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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