Therese Shumaker, LPCC

Therese Shumaker is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) who uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and related methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and eating concerns. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can describe what’s happening and begin to sort it out. Conversations are practical and focused on what feels most urgent right now.

Therese leans on CBT to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build skills that change daily behavior. She also draws from client-centered and mindfulness approaches to keep sessions warm and grounded. These methods combine to help people learn coping tools and shift small habits that make a big difference.

She has ten years of experience working with common struggles like guilt, shame, and communication problems. Therese often helps people who are wrestling with caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, and challenges around life purpose and self-love. She also supports smoking and vaping cessation and women’s issues when they connect to emotional well-being.

Therese favors a collaborative pace; she listens first, then helps set realistic steps to test new ways of thinking and acting. Sessions typically include concrete exercises, reflection, and short-term goals you can try between meetings. That practical focus aims to reduce overwhelm and increase day-to-day functioning.

Based in Minnesota, she offers sessions in English and uses multiple online formats for convenience. If you want steady, straightforward support that combines skill-building with compassionate listening, she can help you begin to untangle what feels stuck.

How Therese brings CBT and supportive therapy online

Therese uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice patterns of thought and behavior that keep stress and anxiety active. CBT sessions focus on simple, practical exercises such as testing thoughts, tracking mood-linked behaviors, and building new routines that reduce symptoms.

She also uses client-centered and mindfulness approaches to keep sessions grounded in the client’s experience. Client-centered work means the conversation centers on what matters to the person in the room, while mindfulness practice teaches short attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and improve focus.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Therese works collaboratively to match methods to a client’s goals, needs, and daily life. She will check in about what helps and adjust techniques as you try them together.

Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy or unpredictable schedules. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving routines, or times when a shorter check-in is needed.