Shawndre Leydon , LMHC, LCPC

Shawndre Leydon is a licensed mental health professional based in Florida who brings a compassionate, strengths-focused approach to therapy. She holds the LMHC and LCPC credentials - Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - and she draws on five years of clinical experience supporting people through depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship challenges, parenting concerns, addiction, and a wide range of other life stressors and mood conditions.

Her style is warm, interactive, and respectful, emphasizing sensitivity and an absence of stigmatizing labels. Shawndre integrates evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance and commitment techniques, attachment-informed work, client-centered principles, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to tailor treatment to each individual. She adapts conversation and care plans to reflect the unique needs, values, and goals of each person she works with.

Shawndre is experienced addressing areas that include self-esteem, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping concerns, ADHD, bipolar challenges, family and blended family dynamics, codependency, and caregiver stress. She aims to empower clients to take meaningful steps toward change while offering steady, practical support throughout the process.

Therapeutic approaches and online care that adapt to your needs

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages people to clarify what matters most to them and to take committed action toward those values while learning to make room for difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, life transitions, and chronic stress by shifting the focus from symptom elimination to meaningful living.

Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in close relationships that often shape how people relate to partners, family members, and friends. By identifying attachment styles and healing relational wounds, this approach aims to improve trust, communication, and emotional connection in personal relationships.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a collaborative, empathetic therapeutic relationship in which the therapist listens deeply and supports the client's self-directed growth. This approach is useful for building self-esteem, processing grief, and navigating identity or life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Shawndre works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques as progress unfolds.

Online sessions - including video calls, phone appointments, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to receive consistent care around work, family, and geography. These options increase flexibility and accessibility while allowing licensed professionals to deliver structured, goal-focused therapy that integrates the approaches described above.