About Shanna
Shanna Gonzalez is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with over 10 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by offering steady, practical support for daily struggles. Her work often addresses stress and anxiety while also covering relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem challenges.
Shanna uses straightforward conversation to understand what matters most to each person. She listens first, then helps set small, clear goals people can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Her approach adapts to the pace someone needs and the problems they bring, whether it is coping with life changes, grief, or compassion fatigue. Clients can expect a calm, respectful tone during sessions and help building skills for handling strong emotions. She draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas to notice thought patterns and on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings.
Emotion-focused work is also part of how she helps people name and move through painful emotions. Shanna supports people dealing with addiction, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and career-related stress. She also helps with identity and intimacy issues, eating and body-image worries, and feelings of isolation or emptiness.
Practical tools and clear steps are emphasized so progress is visible. If someone is unsure where to begin, Shanna helps clarify priorities and crafts a plan that fits everyday life. She aims to make therapy feel doable and relevant for people juggling work, family, and other responsibilities.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how past and present relationships affect emotions and reactions. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in how they connect with others and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors. In virtual sessions this often means learning simple exercises and homework to try between meetings to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit the person's needs, and adjust the plan over time. Together they decide what feels most useful and practical for day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging lets someone check in quickly or send updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit care around work, parenting, or other commitments and to keep momentum when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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