Shobana Shanmugavelayutham , LCPC

Shobana Shanmugavelayutham is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with five years of professional experience. She focuses on supporting people facing stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, as well as challenges with motivation, self-esteem, and confidence. Her approach centers on recognizing each person as the expert of their own story and building on existing strengths to navigate difficult moments.

Shobana encourages clients to take courageous steps toward a more fulfilling life and offers steady support throughout the process of change. She draws on a range of therapeutic methods to tailor care to individual needs and helps clients develop practical skills for coping with life transitions, relationships, and emotional pain. In addition to core concerns, she brings attention to hospice and end-of-life counseling, immigration-related issues, and multicultural considerations that can shape the healing journey.

Clients can expect a collaborative, nonjudgmental partnership in which Shobana aims to empower them to set meaningful goals, build resilience, and move toward greater well-being.

Flexible Therapeutic Approaches for Remote Sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps clients notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and focuses on identifying personal values to guide meaningful action. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and patterns that keep people from living in line with what matters to them.

Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns in close connections and offers ways to build safer, more secure ways of relating. This approach can be especially helpful for healing from trauma and improving relationship dynamics.

Shobana treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She works with clients to determine which methods align with their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjusts strategies as progress unfolds.

Online sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives or when distance is a barrier. These options allow licensed professionals to offer consistent care, practical skill-building, and emotional support while accommodating different schedules and communication styles.