Shawna Powell, LPC

Shawna Powell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 23 years of clinical experience in Colorado. She became a therapist after using her own life experiences to guide others through recovery. Shawna focuses on helping people move beyond surviving toward a more hopeful and manageable life.

Her work covers stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self esteem, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and parenting strain. She also supports people facing bipolar challenges, compassion fatigue, and major life changes. Additional focus areas include attachment issues, codependency, body image, chronic illness or pain, and dissociation.

Shawna draws on a mix of practical approaches to match each person’s needs. She encourages clients to be the experts on their own lives and to take an active role in planning care. Sessions emphasize clear goals, real skills, and steady progress rather than jargon or abstract theory.

People who come to Shawna can expect straightforward collaboration. She listens for what matters most and helps create steps that fit day-to-day life. Her style blends empathy with concrete tools so people can practice new ways of coping between sessions.

Her aim is to help clients improve daily functioning and quality of life. She invites people who are ready to address painful experiences, relationship strain, or ongoing stress to begin a conversation and see what practical changes feel possible.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate action. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward a meaningful life, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It aims to identify unhelpful ways of relating and to build more trusting connections with self and others, useful for intimacy-related concerns and attachment issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision can shift over time as progress and new challenges appear.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know what formats are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow quicker check-ins between appointments. It also makes regular work on skills more practical for people juggling caregiving, medical needs, or demanding jobs.