About Shauna
Shauna Figueroa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of experience helping people find steadiness after hard times. She brings a background in both social work and medicine to her practice and aims to make clients feel heard and accepted from the first meeting. She keeps sessions straightforward and practical.
Shauna listens for what matters most, helps people name their feelings, and works with them to set small, clear goals.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and direct so clients can move from feeling stuck to trying new steps in daily life. Over 20 years she has supported people through anxiety, depression, trauma and grief, as well as struggles with addictions and relationship problems. She also helps with parenting stress, sleep problems, bipolar symptoms, attention challenges, and issues around identity and intimacy.
Her work pays special attention to how family history, attachment, and past losses shape current patterns. Shauna draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral thinking, emotionally-focused work, the Gottman method for relationships, and mindfulness practices. She tailors what she uses to each person’s situation rather than following a single script.
People who come to her can expect a collaborative approach that blends practical coping skills with emotional understanding. Shauna aims to create a calm space where honest conversations lead to gradual change and clearer next steps.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy puts your priorities first and focuses on listening, understanding, and helping you name what matters. In online sessions this means conversations that follow your lead and practical plans you can try between meetings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete skills to shift them. Online CBT often uses brief exercises, thought logs, and step-by-step practice that fit into a busy week.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and change unhelpful emotional patterns that affect close relationships. In remote sessions this can be used to practice new ways of sharing feelings and responding during real-life interactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will happen together. The therapist will talk with you about goals, try techniques, and adjust based on what helps. This collaborative process aims to match methods to your needs and preferences.
Online formats offer flexibility for different situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and deeper exchanges; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging can serve as shorter check-ins, coaching-style support, or a way to fit work on coping skills into a tight schedule. These options make it easier to keep continuity while balancing life demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Connecticut, Virginia, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English