Therese Shumaker
Compassionate CBT-informed care for practical change
LPCC Minnesota
- Experience
- 10 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Eating, Depression
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Therese
Therese Shumaker brings a cognitive behavioral framework to her therapeutic work while keeping the conversation grounded in empathy and collaboration.
Background and approach
As an LPCC with a decade of experience, she helps people identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and build practical skills to manage stress, anxiety, eating concerns, and depression. Her style emphasizes clear goals and small, achievable changes that fit each client's life.
Therese also integrates client-centered and mindfulness-based elements to create a calm, respectful space where clients feel heard and understood. She is attentive to issues such as guilt and shame, communication struggles, and the stress of caregiving or chronic illness, and she tailors interventions to address those specific struggles.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques round out her approach, supporting clients in finding personal motivation and noticing progress along the way. Practicing in Minnesota, Therese values working at a pace that feels manageable and strengths clients’ existing resources.
Her interest in life purpose, self-love, and transitions complements more targeted work like smoking or vaping cessation and women's issues, offering a flexible mix of practical skill-building and reflective exploration.
Approaches that guide online work and practical access
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering concrete skills for managing anxiety, depression, stress, and eating concerns. Client-Centered Therapy provides an empathic, nonjudgmental stance that prioritizes the client's experience and helps build self-awareness and self-compassion. Mindfulness Therapy complements these methods by teaching attention and acceptance practices that can reduce reactivity and support coping with chronic pain, caregiver stress, and difficult emotions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process; the therapist works with each person to explore which strategies feel most useful and adjusts the plan based on goals, preferences, and what emerges in sessions. That shared decision-making helps clients try different techniques and keep the work aligned with their changing needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for varied schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to attend regular sessions, practice skills between meetings, and maintain continuity of care when life is busy or circumstances change, while still working with licensed professionals informed by CBT, client-centered, and mindfulness practices.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
10+ years
Licensed
Minnesota
Languages
English