About Shayna
Shayna Schaefer is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of practice in Delaware. She focuses on helping people build self-worth, improve communication, and manage major life changes. Shayna aims for practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable.
Her work often addresses stress, anxiety, and depression, and extends to relationship and intimacy concerns. She also helps people who cope with grief, trauma and abuse, and mood challenges like bipolar disorder.
Background and approach
Parenting pressures, career shifts, and ADHD are common topics in her sessions. Shayna uses approaches that match each person’s needs rather than a single method. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered listening to guide each plan.
Mindfulness and existential ideas also shape conversations about meaning and values. Sessions are aimed at clear goals - better communication, healthier routines, or managing strong emotions. Shayna pays attention to patterns from adoption, attachment, or blended family backgrounds when they matter to the work.
She also supports people facing cancer, caregiving strain, or aging-related stress. She speaks English and Spanish and brings many years of hands-on clinical experience to sessions. People who want to begin can follow the site’s matching steps to find out if her style and schedule are a fit.
Therapeutic approaches that fit your life online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify personal values and take small committed steps toward them. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and making changes that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical skills to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which often helps with mood, worry, and coping strategies. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening without judgment and following each person’s lead to build trust and self-understanding.Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and how each approach might help. Together they adjust methods over time so work feels relevant and realistic for everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, reflection between sessions, and steady support during a busy week. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping focus on practical steps and skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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