About Shawndre
Shawndre Leydon is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor based in Florida. She brings five years of clinical experience and a calm, respectful approach to sessions. Shawndre focuses on anxiety among many concerns and aims to help people feel steadier and more able to manage everyday stressors.
She uses practical, talk-forward work that centers on what a person wants to change. Sessions look at thought patterns, emotional responses, and values-driven goals to build small, usable steps forward.
Background and approach
Shawndre draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral work and acceptance-based strategies to reduce worry and improve coping. Her style is collaborative and client-centered. She listens for each person’s priorities and adjusts the pace and tools to match what feels useful.
People can expect clear goals, skill practice, and time to reflect on progress. Shawndre has experience helping with trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, mood concerns, and issues like sleep, eating, and addiction. She also addresses areas such as attachment difficulties, caregiver stress, and coping with life changes.
Her broad focus includes concerns common to LGBTQ people and those facing grief or career strain. Sessions are offered in English and Shawndre works with clients both in Florida and internationally. Her listed credentials are MA LMHC and ME LCPC.
She supports people who want straightforward, compassionate therapy to regain balance and move toward meaningful goals.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and connect actions to personal values, which can reduce avoidance and help with anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises and homework to lower worry and improve sleep. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and emotional bonds to help people understand how early connections affect present-day reactions and communication.Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will listen to a person’s goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what works. That collaborative process helps match skills and strategies to each person's needs rather than relying on one fixed method.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging lets someone reflect between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and travel schedules and to keep steady momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- 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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maine
- Languages
- English
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