About Shannon
Shannon Amabile is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, parenting concerns, addiction recovery, and life transitions. She works with people facing intimacy issues, sleep problems, self-esteem struggles, career stress, and burnout.
Background and approach
Shannon brings an approachable, curious style to sessions and focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. Her work favors solution-oriented methods and behavioral tools so clients often get relief early in treatment.
She encourages people to tell their stories and listens without judgment. Shannon emphasizes helping clients make choices that feel true to them and build confidence over time.
She draws from several well-known therapies, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Client-Centered approaches. Mindfulness and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are also part of her toolbox when people need emotion regulation or grounding techniques.
These methods are used to address both immediate problems and longer standing patterns tied to family of origin or attachment issues. Shannon has eight years of clinical experience and practices in California as an LMFT - a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
She has worked in educational, residential, corporate, production, office, and virtual settings, bringing that variety into how she tailors care for each person. Sessions focus on skill building, clearer communication, and short-term behavioral experiments.
The overall aim is to reduce distress, strengthen self-trust, and help people move toward the life they want to lead.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take values-based action despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for anxiety, life transitions, and getting unstuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practical exercises and homework tasks, which can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, empathic relationship where the therapist listens and follows the client's lead to build self-understanding and confidence.Finding the right approach is part of the work and will be collaborative. The therapist discusses goals and preferences, then adjusts techniques as needed. Clients often try one method and layer in others, combining skills like mindfulness, emotion regulation, or behavioral experiments to match what they need in the moment.
Online therapy makes these approaches flexible and easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls work well for deeper conversation and practicing communication skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or the client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for brief check-ins, written reflection, and follow-up between sessions. These formats help people access consistent care, keep skills front of mind, and use therapy in ways that fit their daily routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English