About Pneurissa
Pneurissa Stamps is a licensed clinical professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She works with individuals who feel overwhelmed by panic, anger, low self-esteem, or difficult life transitions. Her manner is calm and direct, aimed at small, practical steps that make a difference day to day.
She draws on several established therapy styles to match what a person needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques help slow racing thoughts and bring attention back to the present moment. Client-centered work focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel understood. Pneurissa also integrates psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that started earlier in life, such as attachment or family of origin issues.
Solution-focused methods are used to set clear, reachable goals and track progress between sessions. This mix helps with panic attacks, mood disorders, dissociation, and post-traumatic stress symptoms. She brings seven years of clinical experience in Illinois and holds an IL LCPC, which is noted up front.
Sessions often include practical exercises, coping strategies, and regular check-ins to measure improvement. The goal is steady, manageable change rather than instant fixes. Pneurissa aims to create a respectful and faith-affirming space for exploration.
She supports people working through forgiveness, codependency, communication problems, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose. Her style is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflection so the person feels heard and understood. It helps people build self-awareness and self-acceptance while deciding their own goals and next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches simple tools to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, panic attacks, and mood symptoms because it targets day-to-day thinking and actions.
Mindfulness therapy adds short practices to notice the present moment and reduce rumination. That approach can help when worry or stress feels constant and repetitive.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they choose methods and adjust the plan as progress is tracked over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video works well for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat suits quick check-ins or shorter updates. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, family, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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