About Shawna
Shawna Morrison-Flood is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and addiction concerns. She speaks plainly and listens first to understand what matters most to each person. Shawna aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through immediate problems and plan realistic next steps.
Shawna draws on about ten years of clinical experience in Virginia, including work that began in child welfare and moved into community mental health.
Background and approach
That background gave her experience with mood disorders, trauma, ADHD, and a wide range of life challenges. She combines several ways of working to fit the needs in front of her rather than using one fixed method. In sessions she focuses on practical skills and clearer thinking.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques help break unhelpful patterns and build coping tools. Client-centered work keeps the conversation focused on a person's goals and strengths. Mindfulness practices are used to reduce overwhelm and increase moment-to-moment awareness.
Motivational Interviewing supports people who want to change but feel stuck. Psychodynamic ideas can help uncover recurring patterns that affect relationships and self-esteem. Shawna works with concerns including depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, anger, family problems, and issues around identity and sexuality.
She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, hoarding, divorce, and grief. Her approach is flexible and aimed at helping people make manageable progress toward the life they want.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's goals and values first. The therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead to set priorities and pacing. This approach helps when someone wants a respectful, strengths-based conversation about what changes matter most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on practical steps people can use right away. It examines thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and builds simple exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, or address unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches brief attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and improve emotion regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Shawna will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, then try methods that fit. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust methods over time if something is not helpful.
Online sessions offer flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls are good for a full session that feels similar to in-person meetings. Phone sessions can be a good option when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, progress notes between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and varied routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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