About Shanna
Shanna Gonzalez is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with more than ten years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction while also supporting concerns like self-esteem, relationship strain, and trauma. Shanna works to create a respectful and compassionate space where people can talk through what matters most to them.
Her approach is practical and person-focused. She tailors conversations and treatment plans to fit each person’s needs instead of using the same plan for everyone.
Background and approach
Sessions often include learning new ways to handle strong emotions, practicing clearer communication, and building small habits that improve day-to-day life. Shanna draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Emotionally focused work helps when relationships and intimacy are at the center of concerns. People turn to her for a wide range of issues beyond mood and anxiety, including grief, career stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related struggles, and questions about identity. She also helps with addictive behaviors, body image, codependency, and feeling isolated or directionless.
Her style is attentive and supportive while staying goal-oriented. Shanna aims to help people find clearer choices and greater emotional balance. If someone wants guidance that is both compassionate and practical, she offers steady support through the change process.
How attachment and cognitive approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds influence current relationships and emotional responses. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in their connections and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; sessions often include trying small experiments and practicing skills between meetings. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps when relationship and intimacy issues are central, guiding people to identify and express core feelings that affect closeness.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a person’s goals and try different ways of working to see what fits best. Over time the plan can shift based on what helps most, and the client and therapist decide together on next steps.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth sessions and face-to-face conversation, while phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, quick support between sessions, and easier scheduling during a busy day. These formats make it simpler to keep therapy going around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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