About Shayna
Shayna Schaefer is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 28 years of experience to her therapy work in Delaware. She focuses on building self-compassion, clearer communication, and practical ways to handle big life changes. Shayna uses straightforward, collaborative methods to help people manage stress and anxiety and to rebuild steady routines.
Her practice covers many emotional struggles including depression, relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues around intimacy and eating.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing career shifts, parenting stress, bipolar mood concerns, and ADHD-related challenges. Additional focus areas include abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, blended family issues, and caregiving stress. Sessions emphasize the person’s values and choices while teaching tools to reduce unhelpful thinking and patterns.
Shayna draws on acceptance and commitment work alongside cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness to create short, hands-on steps people can try between meetings. She also brings client-centered and existential ideas to help people find meaning and stronger self-direction. Shayna works in both English and Spanish and offers several ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She practices in Delaware and brings long experience helping people adjust to life transitions, improve communication, and manage anxiety. People who meet with her can expect a warm, practical approach that focuses on what matters to them. She works with each person to set goals and choose techniques that fit their daily life.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, meaningful steps toward them. It helps people with anxiety and life transitions by teaching ways to accept difficult feelings while still moving toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets specific thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, offering concrete tools to reduce anxious thinking and change unhelpful routines. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation.Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. Shayna collaborates with each person to shape treatment based on their goals, daily demands, and what feels helpful. She reviews what’s working and adjusts techniques so sessions fit real life rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins or pause-and-reflect exchanges that fit into busy days. These options make it simpler to maintain momentum between meetings and to practice new skills in the situations where they matter.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Delaware
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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