Pneurissa Stamps
Practical, compassionate therapy for life challenges
LCPC Illinois
- Experience
- 7 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Anger
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Pneurissa
Pneurissa Stamps is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois who blends evidence-informed methods to address anxiety, depression, trauma, and related concerns.
Background and approach
She integrates cognitive behavioral strategies with client-centered and mindfulness practices to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns, build practical coping skills, and cultivate greater emotional awareness. With seven years of clinical experience, she brings steady, skills-focused care alongside attention to personal history and relational patterns.
Her work covers a range of presenting issues including stress, panic symptoms, mood disorders, anger, self-esteem struggles, and trauma and abuse. She also attends to themes such as abandonment, attachment concerns, codependency, family of origin difficulties, dissociation, and post-traumatic stress, aiming to help clients move from survival responses toward clearer goals and improved day-to-day functioning.
Sessions emphasize collaboration, respectful inquiry, and practical steps that align with each person’s values and life circumstances. Stamps describes her therapeutic stance as compassionate and culturally aware, offering a space where clients can explore identity, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and life purpose.
Her approach includes solution-focused elements to help clients set achievable goals while also drawing on psychodynamic perspectives when deeper patterns are relevant.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care
Many clients find cognitive behavioral techniques helpful because they focus on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, panic symptoms, and mood regulation. Client-centered therapy emphasizes an empathic, non-directive stance in which the therapist offers understanding and support to help clients explore their values and goals. Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment awareness skills that can reduce emotional reactivity and aid in managing stress and trauma symptoms.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to consider their concerns, goals, and preferences and will adapt methods over time so the plan fits what the client needs and wants to accomplish. This may involve combining skill work, reflective exploration, and short-term solution strategies.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and accessibility. These formats allow people to schedule therapy around work and life demands, maintain continuity when circumstances change, and choose the communication style that feels most manageable while engaging in regular therapeutic work.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
7+ years
Licensed
Illinois
Languages
English