Shanna Gonzalez

Shanna Gonzalez is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with over ten years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and relationship challenges. She also helps with trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, and eating and food-related issues.

Her style is warm and respectful. She listens first and adapts conversation to each person's needs. Sessions move at a pace that feels manageable and practical steps are offered when useful.

Shanna uses several approaches to guide work in therapy. She draws on attachment-oriented ideas to look at how past relational patterns affect current life. She uses client-centered methods to keep the process focused on the person's goals. Cognitive behavioral techniques are introduced to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.

People often come for help with career stress, loneliness, compassion fatigue, grief, or navigating life changes. Additional focus areas include body image, codependency, communication problems, ADHD, abandonment, and identity questions such as LGBT concerns.

She encourages a collaborative partnership. Together the person and Shanna develop a plan that feels workable and relevant. The aim is clearer choices, better day-to-day coping, and a stronger sense of direction.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Shanna often combines attachment-based and client-centered ideas with cognitive behavioral techniques. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current feelings and behaviors and can help with intimacy, abandonment, and relationship struggles. Client-centered methods keep sessions focused on what the person wants, using empathic listening and collaboration to set goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and eating-related patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their goals, needs, and style. That collaborative planning can be adjusted as progress is made.

This profile does not list specific online session formats. Please confirm the available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people maintain continuity of care when life changes make in-person visits difficult, while the therapist and client focus on practical steps and tools that transfer into everyday life.