Shawna Powell, LPC

Shawna Powell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 23 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, relationship and family concerns, intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. She also works with people dealing with attachment issues and blended family issues among other concerns.

Shawna became a counselor after using her own experiences to help others recover from traumatic events. She found early in her training that personal experience could be channeled into practical support and social change. That perspective led her to keep learning and to blend different methods in her work.

Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She treats people as the experts on their own lives and involves them in choosing what to try. Sessions typically include clear techniques and down-to-earth conversation rather than abstract theory.

Shawna draws on several evidence-informed approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. She adapts tools from these approaches to address practical problems like managing anxiety, working through grief, and handling relationship and parenting stress.

People come to Shawna when they need help sorting complicated feelings after big changes. She aims to improve daily functioning and reduce the impact of past harm so clients can handle current responsibilities more effectively.