Shayna Schaefer

Shayna Schaefer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Delaware with 28 years of experience. She focuses on helping people build self-love, strengthen communication, and face major life changes with more confidence and clarity. Her tone is collaborative and grounded, aimed at practical steps people can use day to day.

Shayna often works with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She supports people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, eating concerns, and career stress. Coping with life changes is a common focus, including midlife shifts, workplace transitions, and challenges tied to parenting or caregiving.

Her style blends client-centered conversations with skills-based methods. Sessions typically include listening, gentle challenge, and tools people can practice between meetings. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thinking patterns and from mindfulness and acceptance practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment choice.

Shayna also draws on psychodynamic and existential ideas to help people understand patterns that come from past relationships and life meaning. That mix supports both immediate symptom relief and longer-term personal insight. She offers services in English and Spanish for people who prefer either language.

Practical matters such as scheduling and cost follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, use the Start Therapy button, fill out a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

How Shayna's approaches translate to online work

Shayna integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) into her sessions. ACT focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, which is useful for life changes and chronic worry. CBT teaches concrete skills for spotting and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which helps with anxiety, depression, and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify which methods fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. Together they try tools, check what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so therapy stays practical and relevant.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it possible to continue care through transitions like job changes or relocation while maintaining the same therapeutic focus and collaboration.