About Shannon
Shannon Almeida is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Illinois with seven years of clinical experience. She offers a grounded, collaborative style that blends talk-therapy with practical skills. Sessions focus on understanding feelings, patterns, and everyday habits that shape a person’s life.
Shannon centers work on anxiety, stress, depression, and ADHD-related concerns. She also helps people navigating relationship strain, family-of-origin issues, parenting stress, identity questions, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Her approach addresses both emotional experience and behavioral change. In sessions she uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice thoughts and try new behaviors. Attachment-Based Therapy informs how she looks at relationship patterns and how early bonds affect present life.
She draws from Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools for emotion regulation and coping skills when needed. Shannon blends conversation with hands-on practice. That can mean worksheets, reflection prompts, and skill-building to try between appointments.
She does not expect perfection, but values regular small steps that fit daily life. Her perspective reflects both clinical training and lived experience with chronic illness, neurodivergence, and queer identity. That informs a focus on multicultural and LGBTQ concerns, chronic pain and fatigue, and finding ways to live more in line with personal values.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people shift how they relate to others and themselves.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Shannon will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit best based on goals, strengths, and preferences. That might mean combining elements from ACT, CBT, and attachment work to match the concerns you bring to session.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins, reflections, or skill practice into a busy day. Together these formats help people access consistent care and practice new skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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