Shaun Cunningham
Practical support for family and life changes
- Credentials
- LMHP
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Nebraska
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shaun
Shaun Cunningham is a licensed mental health practitioner with 25 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, grief, addictions, relationship strain, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Shaun also supports those facing sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, career stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
Her style is straightforward and patient. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking. Shaun listens closely and helps clients set simple goals they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
She draws from research-based tools and from the longer view of a persons story. Shaun uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and change routines that keep problems going. She also uses client-centered methods to follow each persons pace and concerns.
Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments. Over her career shes worked with many kinds of life changes, including divorce, blended family issues, caregiver stress, first responder issues, and addiction recovery. Her work includes addressing family of origin problems, abandonment, codependency, communication problems, and forgiveness when those issues come up.
Shaun practices in Nebraska and holds the credential LMHP - Licensed Mental Health Practitioner. Sessions are available in English and offered through online formats such as video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and then scheduling follows therapist availability.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's concerns. It helps when someone needs a respectful, steady space to talk through parenting stress, grief, or identity questions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets how thoughts and routines affect feelings and actions. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and changing habits tied to addiction or anger. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and simple awareness skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments. These practices can be brief and fit naturally into online sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shaun will work together with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. She adapts methods over time, testing what helps and shifting course when needed so the work stays practical and focused on progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, manage parenting responsibilities, or keep continuity during life changes. They also let clients practice skills in their day-to-day settings while getting support from a licensed professional.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska
- Languages
- English
Next step
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