About Shawndre
Shawndre Leydon uses practical, evidence-informed therapies to help people manage hard moments and make meaningful changes. She holds MA LMHC and ME LCPC and brings five years of professional experience. Her style is warm, direct, and respectful, focused on real-life skills you can use between sessions.
Shawndre helps with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, grief, addiction concerns, and struggles with self-esteem or body image.
Background and approach
She works with issues around intimacy, sexual orientation concerns, parenting strain, and career stress. Her approach draws on therapies that teach skills and explore patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) helps with emotional regulation and handling strong feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current trust and closeness problems. Sessions are practical and client-focused.
Shawndre listens first, then helps set small, achievable goals. She often mixes talk, skill practice, and reflection so people can test changes in their daily lives. Shawndre offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules.
She works from Florida and speaks English, and she meets with international clients when arrangements allow. To begin, people complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without fighting them and then commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to change mood and functioning. It often helps with depression, anxiety, and sleep or eating issues. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationship patterns affect current trust and closeness, which can be useful for relationship and intimacy problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they will try strategies, check what works, and adjust the plan as needed in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send concise updates, practice new skills between sessions, or fit support into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep consistent momentum and fit therapy into real life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maine
- Languages
- English