Shannon Salgado, LMFT

Shannon Salgado is a Florida-based Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of professional experience supporting people through life transitions and emotional challenges. She specializes in helping individuals and families address stress and anxiety, work through addictions, and resolve relationship and family conflicts, while also providing care for trauma and abuse. Her practice also focuses on communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and social anxiety and phobia.

Shannon works from a strengths-based perspective, holding the view that each person is the expert on their own story and already possesses resources that can be harnessed for change. She emphasizes courage and practical steps, guiding clients toward more fulfilling and happier lives while offering support and empowerment throughout the therapeutic process. Her approach blends evidence-informed methods to tailor care to each individual or family, with attention to both immediate coping skills and longer-term growth.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Support

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to clarify their values and take committed actions that align with what matters most, while learning to relate differently to difficult thoughts and feelings - it is useful for stress, anxiety, and challenges with motivation or life direction.

Attachment-Based Therapy explores the ways early and current relational patterns influence emotions and behavior, helping clients improve connection, trust, and communication in relationships and family systems.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering practical strategies for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping with difficult situations.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Shannon Salgado collaborates with each person to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting interventions over time so care remains responsive and effective.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage - sessions can occur by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - which makes it easier to fit support into busy schedules and to continue work across distances. These options allow licensed professionals to offer consistent, accessible care while tailoring the format to each client's comfort and lifestyle.