About Shawndre
Shawndre Leydon is a licensed therapist who blends practical approaches to help people manage overwhelming fears and everyday stress. She holds a Master of Arts and practices as an LMHC and LCPC in Florida. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at making sessions feel manageable for busy lives.
Shawndre uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and build small, useful habits.
Background and approach
She also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to make sure each plan fits the person sitting across from her. Sessions focus on clear steps you can try between meetings, not just talk. She has five years of clinical experience working with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, sleep and eating concerns, and issues around intimacy and relationships.
Shawndre also addresses concerns like ADHD, grief, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She helps people name what feels unmanageable and rehearse new ways of coping. In appointments she prioritizes listening first, then collaborative goal-setting.
Expect practical tools, emotional support, and check-ins to track progress. The tone is respectful and nonjudgmental, aimed at building steady change. Shawndre offers sessions in English and accepts international clients.
Her work is suited to people who want concrete strategies for phobias, anxiety, or life transitions, and who prefer a therapist who balances empathy with active problem solving.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Shawndre commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy when working with anxiety, phobias, and mood concerns. CBT helps people identify and test unhelpful thoughts and practice new behaviors to reduce avoidance. ACT emphasizes noticing painful thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that align with personal values, which can be helpful for people stuck by fear.She also uses attachment-based and client-centered ideas to create a supportive working relationship. Attachment-based work looks at how past relationship patterns influence current reactions, and client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and shaping the work around what matters to each person. Finding the right mix is collaborative - the therapist and client decide together what methods to try based on needs and goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you work face to face when you want that connection. Phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or you need a quick check-in. Live chat and text are useful for brief coaching, skill reminders, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping the focus on practical change.
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What this therapist 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
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