About Shannon
Shannon Julianne Toy greets people with a calm, straightforward approach. She uses her combined experience as a medical doctor and as a clinical social worker to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood changes, relationship struggles, and identity concerns. Julianne focuses on practical steps a person can take right now, and she emphasizes collaboration and clear goals during sessions.
Julianne draws from several evidence-informed approaches to tailor work to each person.
How Shannon works
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with workable alternatives. Client-centered and narrative techniques give space for a person to tell their story and feel heard.
Her background includes seven years of clinical experience across settings. That time includes crisis work, individual and group counseling, and community-based services. She holds an MD and social work licenses listed as LCSW-C and LCSW and practices from Michigan.
In sessions she aims to set small, manageable goals. Meetings often include skill practice, reflection on patterns, and planning for the week. She also addresses concerns such as eating and body image, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Julianne offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose a format that fits their life. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step connect a person to her work. She frames therapy as a partnership focused on real change.
Shannon lists 6 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
- LGBT
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCSW-C, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Julianne commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps toward those values, which can help with anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them, useful for anxiety, mood challenges, and managing symptoms.She also brings a client-centered and narrative sensibility, which means listening closely to a person's story and working together to shape goals. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist and client will collaborate to choose methods based on needs, goals, and what feels most helpful in session.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and interactive work. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in and use less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can help people who prefer writing or need short, frequent contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to keep progress moving between longer sessions.
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