About Shannon
Shannon Julianne Toy is a licensed social worker who helps people facing anxiety, mood concerns, relationship struggles, and stress. She speaks plain language and focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions. Julianne works with issues like phobias, trauma, grief, eating and body image worries, and the everyday strain of parenting or caregiving.
She draws on seven years of experience in mental health work. Her background includes clinical social work practice across settings and roles that emphasized hands-on problem solving and crisis intervention.
Background and approach
Julianne holds MD, LCSW-C, and LCSW credentials and practices from Michigan. Julianne blends familiar methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered listening. Sessions often include short exercises, gentle reframing of negative thoughts, and goal-setting that matches each person’s pace.
She helps people notice what matters to them and take steps toward those values. Practical skill-building is paired with attention to personal stories. Narrative therapy ideas help people reframe difficult experiences, while mindfulness practices support calmer responses to triggers.
Shannon also uses solution-focused tools to break big problems into small, doable tasks. People who choose Julianne can expect a collaborative, direct style. She clarifies goals, checks in about what’s working, and adjusts plans as life changes.
Her approach is steady and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel more capable in daily life.
Using practical approaches in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name their values and take small committed steps toward them even when fear or anxiety shows up. It’s useful for phobias, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going; it often includes short exercises to try between sessions and helps with anxiety, depression, and compulsive habits. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and working at the client’s pace so goals come from what matters most to the person.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps and what feels manageable, so clients play an active role in shaping their care.
Online therapy makes those approaches flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection and brief coaching. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to practice skills in real-life moments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Maryland, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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