About Shawndre
Shawndre Leydon is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship pain. She works with concerns like trauma and abuse, self-esteem, addictions, grief, and intimacy-related issues. She practices in Florida and brings five years of clinical experience to her work.
Her sessions are conversational and respectful. Shawndre uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
She also draws on acceptance-based ideas to help people clarify values and build a life that matters to them. Attachment-based methods help her address problems that come from early relationship patterns. She uses that lens to look at communication, commitment issues, and struggles with trust or abandonment.
Dialectical behavior skills are used when emotions feel overwhelming and regulation strategies are needed. Shawndre aims to tailor each plan to what the person needs most. Sessions may include skill-building, guided reflection, and goal setting.
She favors clear language and steady pacing so people feel able to try new ways of coping. People can work with her on practical life concerns such as sleep, eating, parenting stress, career shifts, and managing ADHD symptoms. She also supports those facing complex issues like dissociation, attachment issues, and caregiver stress.
Shawndre welcomes English-speaking clients and accepts international clients for online formats.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, get clear about what matters, and take committed action toward chosen goals. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress that gets in the way of daily life. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections and trust; it is helpful for intimacy-related issues, abandonment concerns, and communication problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to identify and change thought and behavior patterns that maintain problems like anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying approaches, checking what helps, and adjusting plans together so sessions stay focused and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for more in-depth sessions and skill demonstrations, while phone calls work when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins or ongoing support easier during busy days. These options let people fit therapy around work, family, and travel while keeping consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
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
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maine
- Languages
- English