Shiona Severson

Shiona Severson, LPC, brings a focused, person-centered approach to work with individuals navigating stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma, and mood concerns. Based in Wisconsin and practicing for four years, she integrates Emotion Focused Therapy and forms of EMDR that attend to somatic experience and attachment patterns. Her approach is informed by attachment theory and emphasizes understanding how emotions shape thoughts, behaviors, and relationships.

Shiona frames the therapeutic relationship as a collaborative space where a person’s history and strengths are both honored. She prioritizes clear expectations during the first session, using that time to explain the EFT model and to outline mutual roles in the work ahead. When EMDR is appropriate, she offers it as an option alongside emotion-focused techniques to address memories and embodied responses.

Her practice also addresses a range of relational and behavioral concerns, including abandonment and attachment issues, codependency, commitment struggles, emptiness, family conflict, infidelity, non-monogamous relationship dynamics, and process or sexual addictions. English is the language of her practice, and she is open to working with people beyond her state of licensure when arrangements are appropriate.