About US

Shannon Lee is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. Shannon has over 30 years of experience working with children and families in various settings. Shannon has worked with high-profile families, including celebrities & royalty, traveling to different countries, broadening her understanding and appreciation for the cultural variety and cultural differences that exist in the world. She has over 23 years of experience working as a therapist with a highly diverse population of individuals, couples, children, adolescents, young adults, and families. Shannon is down-to-earth and has a positive, warm and supportive manner with a direct solution-focused approach. Her focus is on the present, working with each client to purge past painful experiences, coaching each client to acquire and apply skills to help them improve functioning and decrease maladaptive symptoms. She believes that each client is unique and tailors each session to their needs in a culturally considerate manner. She collaborates with the individual concerning goals and assists them in meeting their goals to live life fully with a positive outlook. She will work to help each client empower themselves, using an enthusiastic nonjudgmental approach. Open discussion regarding the direction of the session will help the client meet their needs and goals. At the same time, gentle confrontation of issues supports change as appropriate to increase coping skills and awareness. Shannon has extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and young adults. She has worked with children and teens from privileged backgrounds to those underprivileged, lacking resources and family support. Shannon has run several residential group homes (Level 12) for nearly ten years, with a diverse population of children and teens placed in residential care due to severe behavioral and emotional problems. She has worked with abused, neglected, and delinquent children and children and teens struggling with teen issues and parent conflict. She has worked closely with the Department of Probation and other community organizations. Historically, Shannon collaborated with the Department of Probation to help promote juveniles to acquire skills to assist them in making healthy choices and move forward confidently in their lives, reunite with their families, and be successful in the home, community, and school settings. 

Her work with parents is to encourage them to gain positive parenting skills. She works closely with each parent, encouraging parents to identify and take responsibility for their parenting style and practices and actively implement new strategies and make necessary changes. She utilizes psycho-education, resources, role-playing, and modeling of positive parenting skills when working with each parent. She supports parents in validating and understanding their children and improving connections, consistency, and follow-through. The therapeutic environment provided is genuine, warm, caring, and confidential, focusing on the client-therapist relationship and effective treatment. 

Depending on presenting information and goals, Shannon will integrate several treatment modalities to assist each client with improving functioning and using the well-researched, effective methods of cognitive-behavioral therapy, including DBT and several other treatment modalities, tailored to suit the client. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy-D.B.T. is an evidence-based approach for effectively treating impulsive behavior, oppositional defiant behavior, and self-injuring behavior. Initially designed by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was specifically used for individuals with self-harm behaviors such as self-cutting, suicide thoughts, urges to suicide, and suicide attempts. More recent use of DBT addresses other problems, including anxiety, eating disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and alcohol and drug problems. DBT is an “empirically supported treatment,” researched in clinical trials, and shown to be effective in reducing self-harm behaviors and emotional dyscontrol. Trained in DBT, Shannon uses this modality or components of this modality when working with many of her clients. Other approaches for treatment might include client-centered, humanistic, positive psychology, parent coaching. And The approach for treatment depends on each client and their presenting problems and goals.   

When Shannon is not working, she is surfing, creating, making art, or music. Shannon also appreciates education and learning and is regularly pursuing educational goals. Currently, Shannon plans to continue to help teens, young adults, parents, and families. Providing effective treatment and staying informed with current developments and research in psychology is necessary and rewarding for Shannon. 

Quin is our case manager and office manager. She handles all scheduling and communication with clients outside of the therapy session. As case manager, Quin is here to help you with the onboarding process prior to your first session with the therapist, any payment questions, and to help guide you in finding any resources and referrals you may need throughout your therapy journey. 

Quin has a bachelor's degree in Speech and Language Pathology and is on the path to acquiring her master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. She has previously worked as a Registered Behavioral Therapist (RBT) for children with autism. She has experience working with children and their families, the geriatric population, and special needs clients of all ages.  

When Quin is not working, she is surfing, creating, making art, or music. Quin also appreciates education and learning and is regularly pursuing educational goals.