About Shannon
Shannon Detwiler uses a therapy approach that centers on acceptance, values, and practical skills. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, practicing in Florida with nine years of experience. Her focus includes stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with major life changes.
Shannon often helps people who feel worn out from caring for others and losing touch with their own needs. She listens for patterns like people-pleasing, over-responsibility, and avoidance that keep someone stuck.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to help clients notice what matters to them and take small, manageable steps toward change. Her work blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive and emotion-focused methods. That means addressing unhelpful thoughts, building emotion regulation skills, and clarifying personal values.
Practical tools and simple exercises are used between sessions to reinforce progress. Shannon also draws on dialectical behavior strategies when strong emotions feel overwhelming. This helps people get steadier and act in ways that match their goals.
The overall tone in sessions is warm, direct, and focused on achievable shifts. She pays attention to family of origin issues, attachment concerns, and wounds tied to abandonment or shame. Communication problems, forgiveness, isolation, and questions about life purpose are common topics brought to therapy.
Work is paced to each person’s comfort level so change feels sustainable. Sessions are offered in English and take place online in formats that fit different schedules. The approach is collaborative - clients and Shannon set goals together and track small wins over time.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and clarify what really matters. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and for people who want to act more in line with their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It offers concrete tools for anxiety, depression, and self-critical thinking. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, centers on understanding and working with emotions to improve connection and self-understanding; it is helpful when strong feelings get in the way of goals.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and goals, and together they will choose which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made based on what helps most in day-to-day life.
Online sessions can happen by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when video is difficult, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and texting provides ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use tools in the settings where challenges actually occur.
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- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Pennsylvania, New York
- Languages
- English