- Person-centered approach
- Values-based work
- English and Spanish
About Shayna
Shayna Schaefer is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of experience in Delaware. She focuses on helping people build self-love, improve how they communicate, and move through major life changes with more confidence and clarity.
Her work covers a wide range of concerns. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, and depression. She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy challenges, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, and codependency issues.
Shayna uses a collaborative, person-centered style in sessions. She listens closely and helps clients name what matters to them. From there she offers practical steps people can try between sessions to notice change and build new habits.
Her approach draws on therapies that encourage present-moment awareness and values-based action. She also uses cognitive tools to spot patterns that keep people stuck, and psychodynamic ideas to understand how past relationships shape current choices.
Shayna works with people facing life and career transitions, body-image and eating concerns, ADHD-related challenges, and complex grief. She also supports those navigating blended family questions, adoption and foster care issues, and caregiver stress.
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. People who want to begin can use the site Start Therapy button to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people connect to what matters most and take small actions that match those values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where clarity and motivation are goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors. It works well for anxiety, mood concerns, and patterns that keep people stuck.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and goals, and together they will try approaches that seem to fit. If something feels off, they adjust the plan so the work better matches what the client wants to achieve.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week and to keep continuity during life changes. Because formats are not specified in the biography, confirm current session options before booking. Discuss scheduling, session length, and communication preferences during the initial match so sessions fit alongside work, caregiving, or other daily responsibilities.
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Experience
28+ years
Credentials
Delaware
Languages
English, Spanish
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Shayna address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, codependency, ADHD, and other life challenges listed in her specialties.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and person-centered. She listens, helps clients clarify values, and suggests practical steps to try between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 28 years of clinical experience working with people on a wide range of emotional and life concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds an LCSW credential with practice in Delaware.
Are services available in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What do I need to do to start?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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