About Shawna
Shawna Morrison-Flood is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety and navigate difficult life moments. She takes a calm, direct approach and focuses on what someone wants to change right now. Her style is welcoming and practical, aimed at small steps that build into lasting habits.
She draws on ten years as a clinician and a background in social work to guide her work. Early in her career she conducted child protective assessments and later moved into clinical practice.
Background and approach
That range means she understands both immediate safety concerns and longer-term emotional patterns. In sessions she listens first to understand the person's goals. She uses different methods depending on the need, including client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral tools, mindfulness skills, motivational interviewing, and psychodynamic ideas.
Sessions often mix skill-building with conversations about past patterns and present choices. Shawna has worked with people facing depression, bipolar mood challenges, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, parenting strain, relationship trouble, ADHD, and issues around self-esteem and anger. She also supports people dealing with family stress, caregiving burdens, hoarding, and other complex situations.
She offers therapy to adults from Virginia and accepts international clients in English. Shawna aims to meet people where they are, respect their choices, and help them find manageable steps toward healthier days.
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's goals. The therapist reflects concerns, helps people name what matters most, and follows their lead to set priorities and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about their needs, try techniques that match those goals, and adjust the plan over time. Sessions often combine listening with skill practice so the work fits the client's preferences and daily life.
Online therapy makes these methods easier to access. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for focused check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or coaching between sessions. These options allow therapy to fit around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on steady progress and practical skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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