Shawndre Leydon

Shawndre Leydon is a licensed mental health counselor and licensed clinical professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage everyday struggles. She draws on practical therapies to address stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and coping with life changes. Shawndre aims for a warm, respectful tone in sessions and works with people facing trauma, addiction concerns, mood challenges, and self-esteem issues.

She uses straightforward conversations to learn what matters most to each person. Shawndre blends approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to create clear, usable tools. Sessions often include skills for managing strong emotions, changing unhelpful thoughts, and practicing values-based choices.

Shawndre has five years of clinical experience and holds MA LMHC and ME LCPC credentials. Her background includes helping people with grief, intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses attachment, abandonment, and body image struggles when these issues affect daily life.

Her style is interactive and client-centered. She focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions and adjusts plans as needs change. People who want to explore behavioral strategies alongside deeper relationship or attachment patterns may find this approach useful.

Shawndre works from Florida and conducts sessions in English. If someone is ready to begin, the typical process is to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to her availability.

How these approaches can work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that matter most to them. It often focuses on values and small steps someone can take each day to feel more in line with what they care about. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and uses specific exercises to shift patterns that cause distress. These methods are useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationship patterns affect current connections, which can be helpful for intimacy, trust, and grief concerns.

Finding the right approach usually happens together. The therapist will ask about goals, everyday challenges, and preferences, and then try methods that fit. Sessions are collaborative and can change over time if something is not working or new goals emerge.

The original profile does not list specific online session formats, so confirm options before booking. In general online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people practice new skills in the places where they live and work, so progress can transfer directly into daily life.