About Shannon
Shannon Bode is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 19 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on relationship and family concerns, grief, and struggles with self-esteem. Her approach is grounded in building a trusting, respectful connection where clients feel seen and heard.
Shannon uses a mix of practical and reflective work. She listens first, then helps people name patterns that cause pain. That can include attachment wounds, codependency, communication problems, or issues around abandonment and jealousy.
Background and approach
Her sessions often bring together mindfulness and narrative techniques. Mindfulness helps people notice difficult feelings without getting swept away. Narrative methods help reframe life stories so clients can find more agency and purpose.
Shannon also draws on psychodynamic and trauma-focused ideas when needed. Those approaches look at past relationships and painful events to understand how they affect present behavior. Sessions may include gentle exploration of old wounds alongside practical skills for coping.
She works with clients who face caregiving stress, body image concerns, divorce and separation, hospice and end-of-life issues, guilt and shame, or a sense of emptiness. Shannon aims to help people build steadiness and reconnect with their inner sense of self through steady, relational work.
How therapeutic approaches work online with Shannon
Shannon commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy when working with people online. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on offering empathetic listening and acceptance so clients can explore emotions at their own pace; it helps with relationship strains and self-esteem struggles. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity to stress and anxiety and can be used during moments of high emotion.She also integrates Narrative Therapy to help people rewrite the stories they tell about themselves. Narrative work identifies recurring themes and offers ways to build different, more helpful narratives about life events and identity. Shannon treats choosing an approach as collaborative and flexible; she discusses options with each person and adjusts methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences.
Online sessions offer practical advantages for people juggling busy lives. Video calls let therapists and clients read facial cues and body language, while phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and options for those who prefer not to be on camera. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a routine and to continue work consistently over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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