Shawna Lupori

Shawna Lupori considers it a privilege when clients invite her into their lives and seeks first to ease any uncertainty about trusting her as a safe, steady professional presence. She aims to be an unbiased, caring, and reliable therapist who supports people as they move forward, heal, and pursue their goals.

She is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Pennsylvania, with state licensure that authorizes her to provide therapy, and she holds national board certification from the National Board for Certified Counselors (NCC). She is also a Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor through the Pennsylvania Certification Board. Shawna brings eight years of clinical experience and has worked across human services with diverse groups, including young adults, adults, older adults, and individuals facing co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns.

Shawna’s primary expertise lies in addiction and mental health treatment, and she also provides care for stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem concerns, relationship and family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating disorders, parenting challenges, anger management, career difficulties, and compassion fatigue. Her approach is tailored to each person’s needs and preferences, drawing from Christian counseling, addictions counseling and motivational interviewing, solution-focused work, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), person-centered techniques, and trauma-informed care. She frequently incorporates existential therapy to explore underlying sources of internal conflict.

Above all, Shawna emphasizes that she is for her clients - encouraging them to build on strengths and to use setbacks as steppingstones toward new ways of thinking and living.