Shannon Flaherty Gibbons, LCSW

Shannon Flaherty Gibbons is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 26 years of professional experience in California. She helps people who are feeling stuck by talking through stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting strains, and low self-esteem. Her approach is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping people take the small steps that add up to change.

Shannon creates a calm space where clients can say what they think and feel without judgment. She listens for patterns in how people cope and points out practical skills to try between sessions. Conversations often focus on clearer communication, setting boundaries, and rebuilding confidence.

She uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. That can include strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts. It can also mean drawing on acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and take action, and attachment-informed ideas to understand relationship dynamics.

Clients can expect a collaborative style where goals are set together. Shannon emphasizes real-life tools and short, manageable steps rather than long lists of tasks. The tone in sessions is respectful and practical, with attention to what matters right now.

Shannon also works with issues related to abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, fertility and fatherhood concerns, eating and food-related issues, and other life transitions. She offers help for people facing grief, emptiness, dissociation, and the ongoing effects of trauma or disaster.

Sessions are conducted in English and take place in California. If you are considering starting, she asks prospective clients to use the site matching process to schedule an initial appointment.

Approaches that translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with what matters. It focuses on small, values-based actions that you can practice between sessions and apply to daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is about identifying thought and behavior patterns and trying concrete experiments to change them, which often fits well with homework and skill practice. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication, helping people understand and change recurring dynamics.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shannon will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in about what feels helpful and adjusts plans over time so the therapy grows with the client's needs.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the current online options before booking. Even without that detail, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins on a work break, or letting clients use a quiet space that suits them. Many people find that having sessions where they already are helps them practice new skills in real-world situations and keeps progress moving forward.