Shannon Mong(She/Her/Hers)

Specialties

Relationships and Attachment - Cultivate self-compassion, healthy attachment, and satisfaction in current relationships. I apply advanced training to foster insight into family attachment patterns that can impact one’s responses to friends, partners, and co-workers. Reduce anxiety from painful or uncomfortable connections with others. Explore new patterns of communication and interpersonal skills that convey emotions, wants, and needs effectively.

Adolescent and Young Adult Mental Health - Partner with teens & young adults to cultivate self-compassion and confidence. Topics often addressed: social challenges & peer relationships, identity & self-esteem, academic stressors, transition to college or career, substance use, social media pressures, changes in family structure, concerns about the future, and fluctuating emotions. Strengthen coping with the stress of life, anxiety, depression, family conflict, & managing expectations of self & others. PARENTS: see "Parenting" speciality.

Neurological & Learning Differences - Work with individuals and their families to support understanding the diagnosis and each person’s unique challenges and strengths. Identify social and relational goals; develop skills in identifying and regulating emotions and engaging socially. Clarify challenges presented by transitions and sensory experiences; build skills and routines to better cope with these experiences. Provide parent consultation on ways to foster family relations through communication and other intervention & support.

Parenting - Provide parent consultation and therapy that fosters healthy family relationships through a shared understanding of child/teen development and building effective parenting practices and communication skills. Frequent topics include: understanding &coping with child and adolescent development, becoming a new parent & parenting styles, family transitions, neurodevelopment issues (learning differences, autistic spectrum, ADD/ADHD), and family attachment patterns.

Life transitions - Sometimes we seek a change and sometimes it happens to us. Support around adapting to life circumstances which may include: moving to a new area, becoming a new parent, career changes, job loss, diagnosis of mental or physical illness (self or loved one), and relationship transitions (such as partnering, loss of friendship, separation, divorce, and remarriage). Explore the challenges and benefits of change. Learn strategies that promote resilience in the face of change .

Caregiver stress & support - Learn ways to cope with anxiety, stress, fatigue, & burnout related to caring for a friend or family member with acute or chronic illness (including physical and mental impacts of aging). Identify skills and behaviors to cope with stressors, changes in mood in the ill or aging person, and balancing the needs of others with one's own needs and health. May include support for family and resource planning for changes in health and living situations.