About Shannon
Dr. Shannon Derby helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, low self-esteem, or major life changes. She is based in Florida and brings 25 years of clinical experience as a licensed mental health counselor.
Her approach aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday life. She focuses on clear goals and practical skills. Sessions are shaped around the problems a person brings, such as managing panic, reducing substance use, building confidence, or coping with grief.
Background and approach
She listens carefully, asks direct questions, and works with clients to set small, doable steps. Dr. Derby uses methods that balance thought work and emotional skills.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thinking. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live in line with their values. Attachment-based and client-centered methods guide how she builds trust and responds to relationship concerns.
People often come for help with parenting stress, relationship struggles, career decisions, or recurring anger. The work can include short-term skills training or longer-term support for trauma and attachment wounds. When relevant, she mixes coaching-style conversation with clinical tools to keep progress moving.
She describes the therapeutic relationship as respectful and compassionate. Plans are tailored to each person, with steady check-ins on what is working. Dr.
Derby aims to help clients feel more capable of handling life and making changes they want.
Approach and online care that fit your life
Dr. Derby uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test them with actions, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. She also integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when difficult feelings are present. Attachment-based ideas shape how she understands relationship patterns and helps people rebuild trust and connection in their close relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She talks with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Then she collaborates on a plan that may combine skill training, values-based work, and attention to relationship patterns so the approach fits the individual's needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care easier to fit into life. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and emotional work. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or short coaching-style exchanges between longer sessions. These options help people access therapy from different places and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- 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
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