About Shanna
Shanna Gonzalez is a licensed clinical social worker with over 10 years of practice in New York. She focuses on helping people manage everyday stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and life transitions. Her approach is respectful and straightforward, aimed at practical progress rather than jargon.
She listens carefully to each person's story before shaping a plan. Sessions are tailored to whatever feels most useful - short-term skills for coping or longer work on deeper patterns.
Background and approach
She pays close attention to relationships, attachment wounds, and how past hurts show up now. Shanna uses methods drawn from client-centered work, attachment-based ideas, and cognitive behavioral techniques. That means conversations that reflect the client's priorities, attention to relationship patterns, and concrete tools for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Emotion-focused ideas are included when people need to name and work through strong feelings. Parents reading this should know she also supports people concerned about ADHD and the day-to-day challenges it brings. She helps clients develop routines, manage impulsivity, and reduce overwhelm without promising specific diagnoses or outcomes.
Her style is compassionate but direct. She aims to build trust while offering practical steps people can try between sessions. If someone wants clear strategies and a thoughtful listener, her work is focused on making steady, usable change.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections and emotional reactions; it helps people understand why they respond the way they do in close relationships and supports new ways of relating. Client-centered therapy centers the person's own goals and experience, creating space to speak openly while the therapist reflects and helps clarify priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) offers practical tools to notice and change thoughts and behaviors that increase anxiety or get in the way of daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful based on goals and needs. That conversation can shift over time as progress is made or new issues arise, and adjustments are welcomed.
Online work is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and messaging can support brief updates or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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