About Shannon
Shannon Bode helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and low self-esteem. She brings 19 years of experience to conversations about attachment, abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, and feeling alone or empty.
Background and approach
Shannon is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, which she uses to guide practical, person-focused work. Sessions start with listening.
Shannon pays attention to the story someone brings and to the patterns that repeat in their life. She looks for small, doable steps that reduce overwhelm and build steadiness day to day.
Her approach blends client-centered care with mindfulness and narrative ideas. That means clients are invited to notice what’s happening right now, name the stories they tell about themselves, and try new ways of relating to their feelings.
Trauma-aware methods are added when past hurts are getting in the way. Shannon often focuses on how early relationships shape current reactions.
She helps people trace patterns like codependency, communication breakdowns, and repeating family dynamics. Work can include processing grief, navigating divorce or separation concerns, and addressing guilt or shame.
She aims for a calm, down-to-earth style. Conversations are direct but compassionate, and the pace is set by the client.
Shannon practices in California and offers care in English.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the relationship in the room. It involves open listening, reflection, and helping people feel heard so they can explore what matters most. This approach often helps with self-esteem, life purpose questions, and feeling emotionally steadier.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices to notice thoughts and bodily reactions without getting swept away. It can reduce anxiety and help people respond rather than react to stress. Narrative Therapy invites clients to look at the stories they tell about themselves and try new, more helpful meanings for their experiences.
Finding the right approach is a joint effort. Shannon will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods as the work evolves. Collaboration helps shape sessions that fit each person’s needs and pace.
Online therapy lets people connect in different ways that fit their life. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports short updates between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when life gets complicated.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English