Dr. Shannon Derby, LMHC
Florida · 25 years in practice
Dr. Shannon Derby is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, low self-esteem, and mood struggles.
License and registration
- LMHC, Florida
- MH17175 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1962365940 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Shannon
Dr. Shannon Derby is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, low self-esteem, and mood struggles. She works with clients who are coping with life changes, grief, relationship and intimacy questions, parenting pressures, and career stress.
Dr. Derby aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive. She draws on Existential therapy to help people find meaning when life feels uncertain.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to teach practical skills for managing thoughts and feelings. Sessions focus on what matters to the client and on small, doable steps toward those values. Dr.
Derby practices in a person-centered way. That means she listens closely and adjusts the conversation to each person’s pace and needs. Clients can expect calm, respectful dialogue and a focus on real-life choices and consequences.
Her background includes two and a half decades working with stress, trauma, addiction, and mood disorders. That experience shapes a balanced approach that mixes reflection with concrete strategies. She pays attention to how relationships, attachment, and past losses affect current struggles.
Practical issues like parenting, caregiving strain, career transitions, and compassion fatigue are addressed directly. Dr. Derby helps people with ADHD, attachment concerns, blended family issues, and body image worries by combining insight-oriented work with skill-building.
Plans are customized to each person’s situation and goals.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Shannon lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coaching
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Shannon names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- 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
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Existential therapy looks at questions of meaning, purpose, and choice. It helps when life feels confusing or empty by encouraging people to name their values and decide what matters most. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches ways to accept difficult feelings while taking action toward personal values; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and persistent worry. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships affect current patterns; it can help with communication, trust, and intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and daily challenges to decide which methods to use. That decision is collaborative and can shift as needs change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls are good for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be chosen when bandwidth is limited or to fit a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when written reflection helps. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care during life transitions and busy periods.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, self-esteem, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, career changes, and coping after trauma.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style blends existential questions about meaning with person-centered listening. She balances reflection with practical skill-building so sessions feel both thoughtful and useful.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 25 years of professional experience working with issues such as trauma, addiction, mood disorders, and life transitions.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a licensed mental health counselor, FL LMHC, practicing in Florida.
Can I work with her in another language or from another country?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What formats are available for sessions?
She meets by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexible ways to connect.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with her?
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