About Shanna
Shanna Gonzalez is a licensed clinical social worker with over 10 years of practice experience in New York. She focuses on helping people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, and concerns about relationships and intimacy. She aims to offer calm, clear support as people take the first steps toward change.
Her work often centers on trauma and abuse recovery, managing addictions, and navigating big life changes. She also helps people wrestling with self-esteem, grief, anger, and career-related stress.
How Shanna works
Shanna uses straightforward conversation to identify what matters most to each person and then shapes a plan to address those priorities. Attachment and relationship themes come up frequently in her practice, so she pays attention to how early bonds and current patterns influence feelings and choices.
Cognitive techniques are mixed with emotionally focused work to help people name difficult emotions and try new ways of responding. Existential ideas about meaning and values are used when clients want to explore life purpose or profound shifts. She describes her style as respectful and sensitive, emphasizing empathy and collaboration.
Sessions are tailored to the person rather than a one-size-fits-all checklist. The goal is to build practical skills and clearer self-understanding so people can move forward with more confidence. Shanna works in English and offers several online formats so sessions can fit busy schedules.
She welcomes questions about how her approach might fit a particular concern or time in life.
Shanna lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Shanna works with
The areas below are the ones Shanna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand connection styles and change repeating relationship habits that cause pain. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental space where the person sets the pace and goals; the therapist listens deeply and reflects what is important. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick or combine methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can shift as progress unfolds, and plans are adjusted together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions for lower bandwidth or when video isn't practical, live chat for focused check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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