About Shannon
Shannon Bode helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and low self-esteem. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 19 years of clinical experience in California. Shannon writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person she meets.
She focuses on clear, practical changes and on understanding the stories that shape a person. Sessions aim to calm overwhelming feelings, improve communication, and find steadier ground after loss or life change.
How Shannon works
Shannon pays attention to attachment and abandonment wounds and the ways family patterns repeat across generations. Her approach blends client-centered care with mindfulness and narrative methods. That means she centers the client's perspective, uses mindful noticing to reduce reactivity, and helps people rewrite the stories they tell about themselves.
She also draws on psychodynamic and trauma-focused ideas when deeper history and safety need attention. Shannon works with concerns such as body image, codependency, caregiver stress, and life purpose. She also supports people coping with hospice and end-of-life issues, guilt and shame, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
In sessions she helps people identify small, concrete steps that improve daily life. Sessions are conversational and paced to each person. Shannon aims to create a steady, understanding presence while helping people gain insight and practical tools.
Her style is warm, direct, and grounded in long-term clinical experience.
Shannon lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Shannon works with
The areas below are the ones Shannon selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approach and access for online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and goals. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people find their own solutions; this approach is helpful for building confidence and clearer decision making.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple noticing skills to reduce reactivity and calm the body. These practices can help with anxiety, chronic stress, and managing intense emotions during difficult moments.
Narrative therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and their relationships. Together the therapist and client identify unhelpful storylines and work to create alternative stories that open up new choices for behavior and meaning.
Shannon approaches treatment as a collaborative process. She will explore different methods with each person and tailor a plan to match their needs, goals, and preferences. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work itself and may shift over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow live face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and maintain regular contact with a licensed professional.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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