About Shannon
Shannon Salgado is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage anxiety. She brings 15 years of experience and a straightforward, supportive manner to sessions. Shannon emphasizes clients' own strengths and choices as the path forward.
She helps people who are struggling with addictions, relationship strain, family conflict, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Work often centers on clear goals like improving communication, reducing panic, or rebuilding trust after hurt.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Shannon uses well-known approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, and acceptance-based tools to help people live according to their values. She also draws on attachment ideas to understand relationship patterns.
These methods guide simple, practical exercises clients can use between sessions. When guilt, shame, or isolation are part of the problem, Shannon helps people reconnect with self-compassion and rebuild meaningful ties. She supports people managing life purpose questions, social anxiety, or post-traumatic stress with paced steps rather than quick fixes.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Shannon listens, asks clear questions, and helps identify small changes that add up. The goal is steady progress toward a more manageable, satisfying life.
Using proven approaches for online anxiety and stress care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes acting on chosen values so life feels more meaningful even when anxiety or stress are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It helps reduce symptoms of anxiety, social phobia, and stress by changing thinking patterns and behavior. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape reactions to stress and conflict. It can be useful for relationship strain and for people who feel stuck repeating old patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shannon will talk with each person about goals and preferences and will use techniques from these models in a collaborative way. Together they decide what fits best and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and messaging suit quick reflections, practice between appointments, and people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue steady progress over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
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
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New York
- Languages
- English
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