Shannon Flaherty Gibbons, LCSW
Licensed in California · 26 years in practice
Shannon Flaherty Gibbons is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 26 years of experience.
License and registration
- LCSW, California
- 20321 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1457180697 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 26
- Languages
- English
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About Shannon
Shannon Flaherty Gibbons is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 26 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationships, parenting challenges, and self-esteem concerns. Her approach emphasizes practical steps and steady support so clients can move toward everyday changes that matter.
Shannon creates a calm and open space where clients can say what they think and feel without judgment. She listens first, then helps people sort through options and try small, doable changes.
Background and approach
Many clients come with worries about motivation, confidence, or major life transitions, and Shannon works at a pace that feels manageable. Her background includes long-term clinical work in diverse settings across California. That experience informs how she tailors sessions to each person’s circumstances, including caregiver stress, chronic illness, grief, and communication problems.
Shannon uses a mix of practical strategies drawn from several approaches to meet concrete goals. In sessions she focuses on clear tools for coping, improving communication, and building daily routines that support well-being. She also attends to deeper patterns like attachment and feelings of abandonment when those issues come up.
The goal is to help people gain skills they can use between sessions. Shannon offers conversational, down-to-earth therapy that emphasizes collaboration. She helps parents dealing with fatherhood or fertility concerns, people facing aging or cancer-related stress, and those wrestling with emptiness or codependency.
Her work is steady, focused, and aimed at real-life change.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Shannon lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Shannon names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches used in online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that align with those values. It helps when worry or avoidance gets in the way of living a meaningful life.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and trust. It can be useful for people who notice repeated problems in relationships or who feel stuck by fear of abandonment.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative effort. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try strategies in session, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so sessions stay focused on practical, meaningful change.
Online therapy offers several ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, manage follow-up tasks, and try tools in real time without always traveling to an office.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, relationship and parenting challenges, self-esteem, and coping with life changes, plus related areas like caregiver stress, chronic illness, and communication problems.
What is her style in sessions?
The style is conversational and collaborative, with focused listening and practical steps to try between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
She has 26 years of professional work experience in clinical settings across California.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, practicing in California.
In which language are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
Which session formats are available?
Shannon provides therapy via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to the therapist's availability.
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