Shauna Figueroa , MD, LCSW-C, LCSW

Shauna Figueroa is a licensed clinician with two decades of practice. She holds MD, LCSW-C, and LCSW credentials and works from Maryland. She focuses on women’s issues alongside a wide range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship difficulties.

Shauna draws on straightforward listening and steady support to help people put feelings into words. Sessions tend to be warm and accepting, with attention to each person's life story and current needs. She aims to help clients build clearer coping skills and more satisfying relationships.

Her background includes long experience with trauma, grief, substance concerns, and parenting challenges. Over twenty years she has worked with individuals and couples addressing complex situations like domestic violence, adoption and foster care issues, and family-of-origin patterns. That experience guides practical choices in session.

Shauna uses methods that include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused approaches, the Gottman Method, and mindfulness practices. These are used to help people manage mood, handle intense emotions, and improve communication with partners.

She also attends to problems often tied to early loss or unstable attachments, such as abandonment, codependency, and control issues. Shauna supports people exploring identity and intimate life, including LGBT concerns and intimacy-related issues.

Her practice offers different session formats to fit busy lives, and she can help people find approaches that match their goals. Many clients come for help with stress, sleep problems, anger, or life transitions and leave with clearer plans and coping steps.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting, nonjudgmental relationship. In online sessions that means the therapist listens carefully, reflects back what she hears, and helps clients find their own answers for issues like low self-esteem or life changes.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT sessions often use practical exercises and simple homework to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change unhelpful behavior patterns.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps partners or individuals notice and shift patterns in how they respond emotionally. This approach can be useful for relationship strains, intimacy concerns, and attachment-related problems even when done through video or phone work.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and life demands. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.

Online formats can make regular work easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief, on-the-go support between sessions. These options give flexibility while keeping therapeutic work consistent and focused.