About Shayna
Shayna Rayman is a licensed counselor offering practical, respectful care for people facing anxiety and related concerns. She holds LMHC and LCPC credentials and brings 11 years of clinical experience to sessions. Her style focuses on listening first, then building a plan that fits each person's life.
Many clients seek her help for stress, relationship strain, and grief. She commonly addresses trauma and abuse, addictive behaviors, and problems with intimacy.
Background and approach
Shayna uses tried approaches such as Client-Centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and EMDR when appropriate. She explains strategies in clear terms and helps people try new ways of responding to difficult thoughts and feelings. Shayna adapts conversations and plans to match what a person needs right now.
Sessions aim to be practical - learning skills, testing them between meetings, and adjusting what does and doesn't help. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassionate support throughout the process. People looking for help with parenting stress, low self-esteem, anger, or depression will find a straightforward, goal-minded approach.
Shayna encourages small, manageable steps toward change and celebrates progress along the way. Her practice is based in Florida and she works in English. She invites people to begin by describing their current struggles and goals.
From there she helps pick approaches and pace that feel realistic and useful for everyday life.
Helping skills and approaches online
Shayna uses client-centered methods that start with listening and understanding each person's experience. This approach focuses on the person's priorities and helps shape sessions around what feels most important to them.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete strategies to change them. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, stress, and mood-related problems. When trauma is part of the story she may incorporate Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, a method that helps process distressing memories and reduce the intensity of traumatic reactions.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Shayna works with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and she adjusts plans as progress is made. The aim is collaboration rather than a fixed program.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls suit deeper conversations and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, brief live chat or texts work well for quick check-ins or between-session support. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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