Shawna Lupori , LPC

Shawna Lupori approaches therapy as a collaborative and respectful partnership, viewing each request for help as a privilege. She strives to create an environment where people can feel steady enough to share their challenges, hopes, and goals while she offers unbiased, compassionate, and dependable support. Her work focuses on helping clients move forward, heal, and achieve meaningful change in their lives.

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania - LPC indicates a state license to provide professional counseling - and she holds additional credentials including board certification from the National Board for Certified Counselors (NCC) and certification as an Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor through the Pennsylvania Certification Board. With eight years of clinical experience, she has worked with a range of populations across life stages and with co-occurring mental health and addiction needs.

Shawna’s clinical expertise centers on addiction and mental health, and she also addresses depression, anxiety, relationship and family conflicts, grief and loss, career concerns, intimacy-related issues, anger, and coping with life changes. Her practice draws on client-centered principles, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, existential ideas, and solution-focused strategies, tailoring methods to each person’s needs and preferences. Above all, Shawna is committed to supporting people as they build on strengths and turn challenges into opportunities for growth.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Shawna commonly integrates client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and motivational interviewing into her online work. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathy and respect, helping clients explore their values and goals while building a trusting therapeutic relationship - it is useful for improving self-esteem, navigating life changes, and strengthening personal insight.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and developing practical skills to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress. Motivational interviewing is a collaborative, goal-oriented method that helps people find internal motivation to change, which is especially helpful for substance use and other behavior changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process; Shawna works collaboratively with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts methods over time as progress is made.

Online therapy with Shawna is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for busy schedules, mobility limits, or geographic constraints. These options allow clients to access licensed professionals from home or other convenient settings while maintaining continuity of care and consistent therapeutic progress.