About Shannon
Shannon Salgado is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, and trauma. She draws on 15 years of experience to help clients name what feels hard and find steady ways to cope.
Background and approach
Shannon speaks English and practices from Florida while working with some international clients as well. Her approach centers on listening first.
She believes each person knows their story best and brings that knowledge into sessions. Together they map small, achievable steps that fit everyday life rather than aiming for dramatic change overnight.
Shannon works with a mix of proven methods, including acceptance and commitment techniques, attachment-informed ideas, and cognitive behavioral tools. She focuses on building emotional skills, improving communication, and reducing patterns that keep problems stuck.
Sessions often include straightforward exercises and real-life practice between meetings. She also addresses themes like forgiveness, guilt and shame, loneliness, life purpose, and self-love.
For people dealing with post-traumatic stress or social anxiety, sessions emphasize safety, pacing, and skill building. Shannon aims to make therapy feel manageable and relevant to daily routines.
Her style is supportive and goal-oriented. People can expect a collaborative tone that respects their pace and priorities.
Practical tools, clear conversation, and steady encouragement are the threads that shape her work.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that connect to their values; it can be useful for anxiety and getting unstuck from unhelpful patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments, which often reduces worry and improves coping for stress and social anxiety. Attachment-Based ideas look at how early relationship patterns shape current ways of connecting and reacting, supporting work on relationship strain and trust.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has helped before. Together they will try techniques and adjust direction when something fits better or feels off; the process is collaborative and paced to the person's needs.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and real-time skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to use quick coaching, check-ins, or writing-based reflection between longer sessions. These options help therapy fit into work, family, and travel schedules while keeping the focus on usable tools and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
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
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New York
- Languages
- English