About Shawna
Shawna Morrison-Flood is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, mood shifts, and life changes. She works with adults on issues like depression, addiction, grief, parenting strain, and ADHD. Her tone is direct and compassionate, aiming to make the first step feel manageable for worried parents and adults alike.
She brings about a decade of clinical experience and a background that began in child protective services.
Background and approach
That work shaped her practical approach to safety, assessment, and connecting people to what they need now. Over the years she has supported people living with mood disorders, trauma, and challenging behavior patterns. In sessions she keeps things straightforward.
She listens first to understand what a person wants to change, then uses approaches that match those goals. Techniques can include talking through thoughts and behaviors, building small practical skills, and noticing habits that get in the way of feeling better. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental.
She emphasizes respect for each person's choices and encourages clients to set realistic goals. Change is framed as gradual and achievable, not sudden or all-or-nothing. Shawna combines several therapeutic tools rather than sticking to a single method.
That lets her adapt work to an individual's needs, whether the focus is on coping with ADHD-related challenges, repairing relationships, or managing strong emotions. She practices in Virginia as an LCSW and conducts sessions in English. People outside the United States may also arrange to work with her.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy is about listening carefully and shaping sessions around a person's priorities. It helps when someone needs support exploring feelings, making decisions, or setting goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and habits and building practical skills to change them, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related patterns, and mood issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shawna treats therapy as a collaboration and will try methods that fit a person's needs and goals. Together they can test what feels useful and adjust the plan over time, combining tools when one approach alone doesn't do the job.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people see nonverbal cues and have more of a face-to-face feeling. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can fit into busy days and allow ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people keep therapy working alongside school, work, and family responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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