About Shannon
Shannon Yambasky, LICSW, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, or shifting mood. She speaks plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Her approach aims to reduce panic, steady mood swings, and rebuild self-esteem so daily life feels more manageable.
Shannon uses Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused methods to look at how relationships shape feelings. She also draws on Client-Centered and mindfulness approaches to help people notice emotions and respond with greater calm.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and small changes people can try between meetings. With ten years of clinical experience and a Washington LICSW, she has worked with a range of mood and anxiety concerns including panic attacks, depression, bipolar mood shifts, postpartum depression, and stress connected to life changes. Shannon pays attention to how abandonment, attachment wounds, and isolation affect well-being.
In sessions she talks through communication patterns, impulsivity, guilt and shame, and life-purpose questions. She also supports people facing fertility challenges, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, or the unique stresses first responders can face. The tone is collaborative and direct, with an emphasis on clear steps to cope better.
Therapy is offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Shannon describes the work as exploration plus practical skills - a mix of noticing feelings, addressing relationship patterns, and building coping tools for everyday life.
How her approaches fit online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and expectations. Online sessions can uncover patterns that drive anxiety or isolation and help people try different ways of relating in their daily life. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on the here-and-now emotional experience in close relationships. It helps people identify core emotions and change interaction cycles that keep stress and panic active. Client-Centered Therapy centers the persons own goals and pace; the therapist listens, reflects, and supports whatever direction the client wants to take.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Shannon will discuss options and tailor methods to match each persons needs, goals, and preferences. She works together with clients to test what helps and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you work visually through emotions and relational patterns. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit more easily into a work break. Live chat or text messaging offer quick check-ins or longer written conversations for people who prefer typing or need more flexible timing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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