Shannon Detwiler, LMHC

Shannon Detwiler is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who bases her work in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy while drawing on several other approaches. She focuses on people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. Shannon writes plainly and aims to help clients find clearer direction and steadier emotion in daily life.

Shannon uses practical tools to address thinking patterns, emotions, and behaviors that keep someone stuck. She helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try small changes that reduce anxiety and lift mood. Sessions often include skill practice, gentle reflection, and steps to test new ways of coping between meetings.

Her background includes nine years of clinical experience and licensure as an LMHC in New York and Florida. That experience shapes a calm, focused approach that balances goal work with attention to feelings. She adapts methods from acceptance and commitment work, dialectical skills, and client-centered listening to fit each person’s needs.

Common topics she addresses include relationship strain, family-of-origin patterns, attachment or abandonment concerns, shame and guilt, and the search for life purpose or self-love. Shannon also supports people processing trauma and abuse, and those trying to rebuild boundaries and trust in themselves.

Shannon offers sessions in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. New clients begin by using an online matching step to connect and schedule a first appointment.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions

Shannon commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, often with homework and short-term experiments to test new habits. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is also part of her work, helping clients clarify values and take meaningful action even when uncomfortable feelings are present. Client-Centered Therapy provides a listening stance that focuses on understanding a person’s experience and building trust in the therapeutic relationship.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Shannon collaborates with each person to figure out which methods match their goals and preferences, and she adjusts tools over time based on what is helpful. That way the work stays focused and practical rather than one-size-fits-all.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging suit short check-ins or ongoing support, and text can help people process thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and daily life while still doing structured therapeutic work.