Shannon Julianne Toy, LCSW-C, LCSW

Shannon Julianne Toy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and relationship concerns. She aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. She uses a warm, collaborative style to help people find ways to feel more like themselves again.

Julianne brings seven years of clinical experience and holds LCSW-C and LCSW credentials. She has worked in a range of settings and has experience with clients facing grief, parenting challenges, eating and body-image concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses issues related to identity, intimacy, attachment, and complex trauma responses.

Her approach blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, narrative work, and client-centered care. In sessions she helps people notice patterns, try small changes, and build practical tools for coping. Therapy time is used to clarify values, practice new skills, and repair ruptures that get in the way of daily life.

Julianne encourages collaboration and plain talk. She invites clients to set goals and to shape the pace of work. Progress often comes from steady, achievable steps rather than big leaps.

To begin, people complete a short questionnaire and schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while making room for difficult feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with concrete behavioral experiments to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning. Mindfulness therapy teaches attention practices and simple ways to notice thoughts and bodily reactions, which can help with stress, trauma responses, and emotional regulation.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they choose methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and goal-oriented.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, offer more flexible timing, and reduce travel time. It can also allow for different kinds of check-ins and homework between sessions so tools learned in therapy are more likely to be used in everyday life.