Shawna Pankonin, LPC

Shawna Pankonin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Mississippi with 14 years of experience in mental health. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, bipolar concerns, and codependency. She also addresses issues related to adoption and foster care, blended families, caregiver stress, and fertility concerns.

Shawna has worked in homes, residential care, schools, youth courts across the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, outpatient settings, and a Child Advocacy Center. That variety means she has seen many kinds of situations and practical challenges. She says the best way to understand someone is to learn where they come from and treat them as the expert on their own life.

Her style starts with what a person already brings. Shawna uses client-centered methods and mixes in approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, narrative work, and solution-focused strategies. She explains things plainly, helps set goals, and uses tools to reduce stress and improve daily coping skills.

Sessions often look like talking through current problems, practicing new ways of responding, and building small steps toward clearer boundaries and better communication. She can help people work on thinking patterns that feed anxiety or low self-esteem and practice mindfulness exercises to calm strong emotions.

Shawna is direct about effort: change usually takes time and work. She partners with people to set realistic steps and build confidence. The focus is on practical steps that fit into everyday life so people can feel more in control.

How her approaches translate to online work