About Shayna
Shayna Strauch is a licensed professional clinical counselor in California with four years of clinical experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, career challenges, and major life changes. Shayna aims to make first steps feel manageable for someone who is unsure or worried about beginning therapy.
She offers straightforward conversations focused on practical next steps. Sessions look at the patterns that keep problems going and explore small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Communication skills and rebuilding trust in close relationships are common topics in her work. Shayna has also worked with concerns that often accompany life transitions. These include caregiving stress, chronic illness or pain, fertility and pregnancy issues, postpartum depression, and end-of-life or hospice decision stress.
She attends to emotional and practical needs during these difficult periods. Other areas she addresses include body image, feelings of emptiness, isolation or loneliness, and questions about life purpose. She supports people coping with family problems, infidelity, and communication breakdowns.
Her approach is rooted in evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person. Shayna offers sessions in English from California. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their routine.
Her practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and cost varies with location and therapist availability.
Approaches that guide online work
Shayna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and clearer communication. One common approach she uses helps people learn concrete communication skills to manage relationship strain and rebuild trust; this involves practicing new ways to speak and listen and applying them to everyday conversations. Another approach targets anxiety and stress by teaching behavior and thought strategies that reduce distress in the moment and over time; these tools help when worry gets in the way of work, sleep, or relationships.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Shayna works with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they track progress and adjust methods so the work fits the person’s life and needs.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to allow flexibility. Video sessions let people use visual cues and real-time interaction, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat works well for quick check-ins or when shorter, frequent contact is needed. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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