Shawna Lupori, LPC

Shawna Lupori is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with eight years of clinical experience. She aims to build trust early and make clients feel comfortable talking about hard things. Shawna emphasizes a respectful, steady presence while people sort through stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, grief, relationship strain, or career and life transitions.

Her background includes long experience in human services and work alongside people facing mental health and substance use challenges. Shawna lists addiction and co-occurring mental health concerns as primary areas of focus, and also helps with depression, low self-esteem, anger, intimacy-related issues, and parenting strain.

In sessions she adapts the approach to each person’s needs. She draws from client-centered methods and cognitive-behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try small changes. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused work are used when clients want clearer steps toward goals.

Shawna also uses existential ideas to look at meaning, purpose, and the bigger questions that can underlie emotional pain. Her style is practical and encouraging; she aims to help people move forward by building on strengths and learning new ways of thinking and acting.

People who want a therapist who listens without judgment and then helps plan concrete steps will find her straightforward approach useful. Sessions are conducted in English and based in Pennsylvania, and she works with adults facing a range of life, relationship, and health-related stresses.

How her approaches translate to online work

Shawna commonly uses client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral therapy in her work. Client-centered methods focus on listening, reflecting, and creating a respectful space so people can identify their own goals and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice thought patterns that affect mood and behavior and practice new ways of responding to everyday challenges.

She also draws on motivational interviewing when people are weighing change. That approach involves gentle, guided conversation to clarify motivation and build practical steps toward goals. Together these approaches target thinking and everyday habits, which can be helpful for stress, anxiety, addictive behaviors, and life transitions.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and preferences and then shape sessions to match those goals. Clients can expect a mix of listening, problem solving, and simple exercises to try between meetings.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm the current online options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Ask about available formats when you arrange the first appointment.