About Shana
Shana Williams-Leary is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of experience. She offers calm, practical support for people dealing with stress and anxiety. She speaks English and Spanish and practices from Florida with international clients accepted.
Shana begins by meeting each person where they are. She listens to immediate concerns and then tailors her work to each person's needs. Sessions can be focused and brief or more exploratory depending on what feels useful.
Background and approach
Her approach blends several methods. She uses cognitive behavioral tools to help change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills. Attachment-informed ideas guide work on relationships and trust.
Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce reactivity and steady emotions. Shana has long experience with trauma, grief, depression, addictions, bipolar conditions, compassion fatigue, and the practical strain of caregiving. She also supports people facing life transitions, chronic illness, and relationship problems.
She can help with parenting concerns and issues tied to family of origin. In sessions she aims to create a respectful, warm space where people can be heard. Her style is down-to-earth and strengths-focused.
She helps people set clear goals and build skills to manage symptoms and move forward.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current trust and connection; online sessions let people reflect on relational patterns and try new ways of relating in real time. Client-centered therapy centers the persons goals and experience, emphasizing acceptance and listening; this approach helps clients shape sessions around what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is well suited to short exercises, homework, and skill practice between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasnt worked before, then try techniques and adjust over time. That helps make sure the work fits each persons needs and feels useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief exchanges, progress notes, and ongoing skill coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity during transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Maine, Utah, Arizona
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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