Shawna Rhymes-Danielson, LMFT
Compassionate, practical help for life and relationships
About Shawna
Shawna Rhymes-Danielson is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 10 years of experience. She focuses on making therapy straightforward and practical for people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, low self-esteem, and difficult life changes.
Background and approach
She uses approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice what matters and change unhelpful habits. Sessions are conversational and focused on small steps clients can try between meetings.
Shawna often helps with compassion fatigue, addiction concerns, and trauma and abuse. She also supports people navigating issues such as abandonment, blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care questions, and infidelity.
Her work addresses everyday problems like communication breakdowns, control struggles, guilt, and forgiveness. In the room she aims for an open, nonjudgmental tone where thoughts and feelings can be named and explored.
She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and then practices new skills together in session. This can include mindfulness exercises, values-focused decisions, or behavior changes tied to clear goals.
Shawna offers sessions tailored to a person’s needs, whether the focus is on relationships, career stress, chronic illness management, or parenting challenges. She speaks English and is based in California, working with people who want steady, practical support.
How Shawna’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters and take small steps toward those values. It uses exercises to identify values and build actions that fit a person’s life, which can help with low self-esteem, avoidance, and life transitions.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships. It helps people understand patterns in connection and communication so they can try new ways of relating and rebuild trust after hurts like abandonment or infidelity.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. They try ideas in session and adjust based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice communication exercises together. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for short check-ins, homework reminders, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, or long-distance situations while using the approaches described above.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English