About Shannon
Dr. Shannon Derby works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction struggles, low self-esteem, grief, and major life changes. She helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career shifts, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Her style is direct and respectful. She focuses on practical steps a person can use between sessions. Shannon is a Florida licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - with 25 years of clinical experience.
She shapes conversations around each person's situation and goals.
Background and approach
That means treatment plans are adjusted to fit how someone lives, thinks, and responds rather than using a single fixed method. Her approach draws on somatic ideas alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-informed work. In practice that looks like paying attention to body sensations, noticing thoughts, and then choosing actions that match what matters most to each person.
She also uses client-centered and cognitive behavioral techniques when they suit the work. Sessions move at a steady, practical pace. Shannon combines listening with concrete tools for managing anxiety, building confidence, improving communication, and coping with loss or change.
Parents and professionals often come for help with overwhelm and boundaries. She treats people with sensitivity and avoids judgment. The emphasis is on small, achievable changes that add up over time.
Taking the first step is hard, and she aims to make the next steps clear and manageable.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Somatic-informed work focuses on the body's signals and how they connect to emotions and habits. It helps people notice tension, breathing patterns, and physical reactions so they can learn new responses to stress and anxiety.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, centers on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small actions toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and life transitions because it mixes mindfulness with practical steps.
Attachment-based work pays attention to patterns in close relationships and how early connections shape trust and communication. It helps people change repeating relationship habits and form healthier ways of relating.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, maintain progress between meetings, and use different formats for check-ins or skill practice. Many people find the variety helps them stay consistent with their work and apply new skills in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English