Shannon Rosenbauer, MD, LCSW-C

Shannon Rosenbauer is a Maryland licensed clinician who blends practical therapy with steady support. She holds an MD and is an LCSW-C and brings 12 years of helping people through big life problems. Her style is direct and warm, aimed at making conversations easy to follow and useful.

She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and to build new habits. Shannon also draws on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to help people feel heard and more grounded during hard moments. Sessions focus on concrete steps you can try between meetings.

Common concerns she addresses include grief and loss, stress and anxiety, depression, addiction, and coping with major life changes. She also helps people facing caregiving strain, chronic illness, end-of-life issues, and challenges tied to body image, career, or identity.

Her work includes attention to family problems, parenting stress, relationship conflict, and compassion fatigue. She can help with feelings of isolation, anger, shame, or low self-esteem. Shannon aims to make plans that fit daily life and personal values.

Shannon welcomes straightforward conversation about goals and options. She supports progress through short-term strategies and longer discussions as needed. To start, expect a focused, respectful session that looks at what matters most to you.

Therapeutic approaches that work online and in life

Shannon often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify patterns of thought that feed anxiety, depression, or unhelpful behaviors and to practice alternative responses. CBT is useful for worry, low mood, addictions, and problem habits.

She also draws on client-centered therapy, which emphasizes listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most to the person. Mindfulness therapy is used to teach simple attention and grounding skills that reduce reactivity and support coping with stress or grief. Together these approaches give both short-term tools and time to explore deeper concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shannon collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She will check in regularly and adjust techniques as progress is made.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls allow for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text messaging works for brief reflections between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.