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5541 Highway 10 East, Suite B
Stevens Point, WI 54481
Phone: (715) 345-9690
Fax: (715) 345-2938
E-mail: staff@newdirectionscc.com
FEATURED ARTICLES
Coping With Stress
What is stress?
Stress is the body’s response to external conditions–or stressors–that upset our equilibrium.
Shawn strongly emphasizes in the mind-body connection during treatment and strives to assist her clients in achieving goals related to all areas of wellness - psychological, physical, and otherwise. A confidential, positive, and compassionate therapeutic environment is provided in which clients are encouraged to re-balance. The ultimate goal of the therapeutic experience with Shawn is to help clients to learn to help themselves.
A cognitive-behavioral approach to treatment is favored, emphasizing the individual self-worth of each client. She has a special interest in treating eating disorders, sleep disturbance, anxiety, depression, anger, ADHD, low self-esteem, and relationship conflicts. Therapy and psychological evaluations are provided to adults, adolescents, children, couples, and families. She will work with physicians and other health care professionals when coordination of care and medication management is appropriate.
Education:
Doctor Shawn Pflugardt is a Licensed Psychologist who has worked in the mental health field for over 15 years.
Graduate level degrees include a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology and a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology from MN State University-Mankato. Her undergraduate degree in Psychology was earned from University of Wisconsin Stevens Point.
Clinical experience includes a variety of settings and clients, such as in-patient state hospital with dual diagnosis (AODA), criminally insane, chronic, transitional and acute populations. She has also provided therapy and psychological evaluations in outpatient community clinic, group home, school, neurological rehabilitation hospitals, university counseling center, and nursing home environments. In addition, Shawn has experience working with ethnic and culturally diverse client populations. She is listed in the National Register of Health Service Providers and a member of American Psychological Association.
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