About Shannon
Shannon Julianne Toy is a licensed clinician based in Michigan who helps people dealing with stress and anxiety. She uses clear, practical steps to ease daily strain and to build coping skills. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, aimed at helping each person find what works for them.
Julianne draws on seven years of experience in social work and therapy. She holds an MD and is licensed as an LCSW-C and an LCSW.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in community settings, crisis response, and teletherapy, which shaped her comfort with a range of session formats. In sessions she focuses on real-life tools you can use right away. That can mean learning small behavior changes, trying different ways to notice thoughts, or setting values-based goals.
She often blends cognitive behavioral ideas with acceptance and mindfulness strategies to reduce worry and improve daily functioning. She also addresses relationship and identity concerns, body image and eating issues, trauma and grief, and challenges like ADHD or burnout. Her approach emphasizes strengths and practical problem solving rather than getting stuck on problems alone.
Julianne aims to work with each person at their pace. She helps people name priorities, practice new skills between meetings, and check what’s working. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit daily life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, stress, and decisions about relationships or work.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It teaches practical tools to shift unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors to reduce worry and improve mood.
Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the person's perspective and pace. The therapist listens carefully, reflects what matters most, and supports each person in finding their own solutions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan together. This makes therapy a collaborative process rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is low or during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and skill practice possible between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, and everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Maryland, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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