About Shaun
Shaun Cunningham is a licensed mental health practitioner with 25 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, ADHD, and relationship strain. She uses clear, direct conversation to help people find ways to cope and make small, steady changes. Shaun speaks in everyday language and focuses on practical steps a person can try between sessions.
Her approach is flexible and tailored to the individual. She draws on client-centered methods to build a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Mindfulness techniques are added when present-moment skills can ease worry and sleep problems. Shaun also brings motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas into sessions when they fit the goal.
Motivational interviewing helps people find their reasons for change. Psychodynamic thinking can uncover patterns that repeat across relationships and life choices. She has worked with a broad range of concerns across many settings over two and a half decades.
That background informs a practical style that values collaboration and realistic goals. Shaun helps people prioritize what matters most and break larger problems into manageable steps. Many clients come wanting relief from anxiety, better sleep, less anger, or help managing ADHD-related challenges.
Sessions typically focus on clear strategies, skill practice, and tracking progress over time.
How Shaun's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and helping each person set their own goals; online sessions use this to shape conversations around what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, and Shaun uses CBT techniques to identify patterns and try practical exercises between meetings. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that can reduce worry and help with sleep and emotional regulation.Picking the right approach is a collaborative process. Shaun will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan based on what is helpful over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face when longer conversations are needed. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when people prefer not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick skill coaching, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping focus on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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