- Years in practice
- 25
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Shannon
Dr. Shannon Derby helps people who are worn down by stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and parenting challenges. She brings a calm, direct style to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use in daily life.
Dr. Derby is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience, and she aims to make beginning therapy as straightforward as possible. She uses clear conversation to identify what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Then she breaks larger problems into small, doable changes. Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Dr.
Derby also attends to relationships and attachment patterns that shape parenting and intimacy-related issues. She listens for the ways past losses, abandonment, or complicated family situations affect current behavior. From there she helps people practice different ways of connecting and responding.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the client. She mixes client-centered listening with skills-focused work from dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation is needed. Coaching and career concerns are addressed with pragmatic tools and goal-setting.
People who work with her can expect straightforward feedback, practical exercises to try between sessions, and attention to real-world obstacles. Her style is respectful and responsive, aiming to reduce overwhelm and support steady progress.
What Shannon works with
Everything Shannon lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Shannon helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coaching
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Shannon lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. This approach can be useful for stress, anxiety, and when life changes feel overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thinking patterns that drive difficult feelings and testing new behaviors to change outcomes. CBT is often used for depression, anxiety, and coping skills related to addiction and parenting stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, client-centered listening, DBT skills, or a mix makes the most sense, and adjust over time based on results.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules and varied needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and guided exercises, phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging support brief check-ins or coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum, fit therapy into a workday, and try new skills in real situations.
Questions people ask about Shannon
What concerns does she help with?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, anger, ADHD, and career or life transition challenges.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is direct, respectful, and practical. Sessions mix listening with exercises and clear steps to try between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
She has 25 years of professional experience working with a range of behavioral and emotional concerns.
What credentials and location apply?
She is a Florida licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - and practices from Florida.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Work can be done via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.
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