About Shannon
Shannon Almeida is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Illinois who focuses on anxiety and related concerns. She brings seven years of clinical experience and a practical, collaborative style to sessions. Shannon centers both emotional processing and real-world skills so therapy feels useful between visits.
In sessions she combines talk-based work with attention to how emotions show up in the body. That means noticing patterns people repeat, what they avoid, and how their nervous system responds.
Background and approach
She pairs insight with simple behavioral tools such as worksheets and coping skills to help people practice change in daily life. Shannon uses several approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Attachment-Based Therapy, and a client-centered stance. She names these methods where they fit, then adapts them to each person’s needs and goals.
Her lived experience as a queer, neurodivergent person who lives with chronic fatigue and pain informs her work. That perspective shapes how she attends to layered experiences - personal, relational, and social. She aims to offer an affirming, grounded atmosphere where people can speak without masking.
Outside of sessions Shannon emphasizes practice over perfection. Homework or between-session exercises are offered but not required each time. The goal is steady, manageable steps toward clearer values, better coping, and day-to-day improvements in stress and anxiety.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and make values-based choices. It focuses on being present, clarifying what matters, and taking small steps toward those goals, which can reduce anxiety and increase purpose. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. It uses practical exercises and thought records to change responses to stress and panic and is useful for anxiety, panic attacks, and depressive symptoms. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape expectations and patterns in current life. It helps people understand connection patterns and build more supported ways of relating to others.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Shannon collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their goals, symptoms, and preferences. She will explain options, try tools in session, and adjust based on what helps most over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility across formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for full conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to be on camera, and chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or shorter coaching-style support. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days and maintain consistent practice of skills between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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