About Shannon
Dr. Shannon Derby is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 25 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or the ups and downs of life.
She also supports those facing addiction, low self-esteem, ADHD-related challenges, grief, and career or relationship strain. Her style is straightforward and respectful. Conversations are focused and practical.
She listens first, then works with each person to set clear, manageable goals that fit their day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Dr. Derby uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. Sessions may include cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and attachment-informed work to improve close relationships.
Dialectical skills and client-centered talk are used when they help someone cope and make choices. She frames therapy as a collaborative process. People leave with tools they can use between sessions, like emotion regulation skills, simple behavior changes, or communication strategies.
Her aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Practical matters are discussed openly. She works via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging and explains how each format can fit into a busy life.
Starting begins with a short questionnaire to match needs, then scheduling follows the therapist's availability.
Online approaches that match your needs
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters most to you and taking small steps toward those values. It can help with anxiety, stress, and the frustration that comes with ADHD-related challenges by shifting attention toward meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce unhelpful reactions and build healthier routines. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape expectations and communication in close relationships, which can be useful for intimacy issues and repeated relationship patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and try a few methods to see what fits. Choices are made collaboratively, and adjustments are common as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, manage shorter check-ins on the go, or avoid being on camera when that helps. Licensed professionals can use these formats to deliver the same therapeutic tools they would in person while tailoring the method to your daily routine.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- 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
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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