About Shayna
Shayna Pannuzzo is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with six years of clinical experience. She centers sessions on what each person brings to therapy and helps them use their strengths to handle challenges. Shayna speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She often works with people who struggle with stress, anxiety, and depression. She also supports those navigating attention differences, developmental disability or intellectual disability concerns, and mood-related conditions.
Background and approach
Shayna addresses issues such as panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, social anxiety, and isolation with straightforward, skill-based work. Her approach blends cognitive behavioral strategies with dialectical behavior skills and mindfulness practice. That means sessions may include identifying unhelpful thoughts, learning emotion regulation techniques, and practicing attention skills to reduce overwhelm.
Motivational interviewing is used when clients want clearer goals or need help finding reasons to change. Shayna has experience around caregiver stress, communication problems, relationship strain, and compassion fatigue. She also helps people manage impulsivity, dissociation, and the effects of traumatic brain injury in day-to-day life.
Her style aims to be supportive while offering concrete tools. Therapy is offered in English and provided through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She asks new clients to complete a brief matching questionnaire to get started and to schedule sessions once matched.
Online approaches that teach skills and build coping
Shayna commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT involves identifying specific thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness techniques to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. DBT-style skills focus on balancing acceptance and change, while mindfulness helps people build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Shayna works with each person to set goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. She explains options and adapts techniques to fit a client’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation and skills demonstration, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit short check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities while still learning practical tools.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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