About Shannon
Shannon Julianne Toy is a social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and related concerns. She uses a direct and supportive style to help people find what works for them. Julianne aims to make sessions practical and focused on everyday life needs.
She brings seven years of practice to her work and holds an MD along with clinical social work licenses: LCSW-C and LCSW. Her background includes roles in community settings, hospitals, schools, and crisis care.
Background and approach
That variety informs a flexible approach to different life situations. Julianne uses several therapy styles depending on the person's goals. She draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice their values and take small steps toward them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break down unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Her work is also client-centered and narrative informed, which means she pays attention to each person’s story and priorities. Sessions tend to focus on clear, achievable steps like practicing new coping skills and changing daily routines.
She also supports people dealing with grief, relationship strain, body image, eating concerns, and compassion fatigue. Julianne offers therapy in Michigan and conducts sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and pricing varies with location and therapist availability.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a session based on availability.
Approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values. It can help with motivation, overwhelm, and coping when attention or mood gets in the way. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. It is useful for building routines, improving focus, and changing reactions to stress. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and priorities, offering a listening space where goals are set together and practical options are explored.Choosing the right mix of these approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit different schedules and needs. Video calls are useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler way to check in when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing skill practice, and flexible planning between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Maryland, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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