Therapist profile
Shannon Amabile, LMFT
California
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - Relationships and Stress
Continue with ShannonWhere Shannon stands
- Credentials
- LMFT
- License
- LMFT, California / 114770
- NPI
- 1588210421
- Experience
- 8 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- California
About
- CBT based methods
- Mindfulness skills
- Behavioral focus
About Shannon
Shannon Amabile is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with eight years of clinical experience. She supports adults dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, grief, addiction recovery, codependency concerns, and the strains that come with career and life transitions. Shannon also helps people facing intimacy challenges, sleep problems, low self-esteem, ADHD-related struggles, and compassion fatigue.
She tends to work in a practical, behavior-focused way. Sessions often include skills practice and steps to reduce distress quickly. Shannon favors curiosity over judgment and invites clients to tell their stories so they can make sense of how past experiences affect current choices.
Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, along with client-centered listening and mindfulness skills. That means conversations about thoughts and behavior, paired with simple practices to increase present-moment awareness and flexible action. She also uses techniques to manage intense emotions and reduce impulsive reactions.
Shannon has experience in educational, residential, corporate, and production-related settings, and she has worked both in office and virtually. That background informs her work with people who face pressures from creative and collaborative industries as well as more typical life stresses.
Clients can expect a focus on improving communication, building self-trust, and learning de-escalation tools for moments of crisis. Shannon emphasizes short-term behavioral steps alongside deeper reflection so clients feel better equipped to handle future challenges.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without fighting them and choose actions that align with personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and situations where someone feels stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and practicing new responses. That approach often helps with anxiety, sleep issues, low mood, and impulsive behaviors. Mindfulness-based techniques teach simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation during high-stress moments.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Shannon treats it as a collaborative process and will help decide which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions can include skills practice, behavior experiments to try between meetings, and reflection on what does or does not help.
The original biography notes experience with both in-office and virtual work, but does not list specific online session formats here. Please confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals often use a mix of conversation, guided exercises, and homework tasks in virtual sessions to keep momentum and progress.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
8+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Can she help with people-pleasing and boundary issues?
Yes. Shannon works with communication problems, codependency, and control issues to help people set clearer boundaries and act more in line with their priorities.
What is her general therapy style?
She uses a practical, behavior-focused style with curiosity rather than judgment. Sessions mix talking with exercises and skills practice.
How many years has she been practicing?
Shannon has eight years of clinical experience working in varied settings including educational, residential, corporate, and production-related environments.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (CA LMFT) practicing in California.
Does she offer sessions in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to start a first session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, then schedule a first session.
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