Shannon Nichols, MA, LMHC, LMFT

Shannon is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She enjoys helping individuals, couples, and families (18+) explore their lived experiences in the safety of the counseling relationship.
Shannon specializes in trauma, LGBTQIA+-related issues, anxiety, depression, relationship conflict, grief, oppression/marginalization, and stress/burnout.

Shannon holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Central Florida and a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a certificate in Family and Relationship Therapy from Rollins College. She completed her clinical practicum at Total Health Guidance in Orlando, FL and her internship at The Mindful Practice in Winter Park, FL.

Shannon uses an integrative approach that draws from trauma-informed, somatic-based, multicultural, and attachment-based approaches. She invites clients to share their life stories and explore their inner worlds and interpersonal relationships in a nonjudgmental space. Shannon empowers her clients by helping them to deepen insight, cultivate moment-to-moment bodily/somatic awareness that works to regulate the nervous system, and process significant relationships and events from the past that are still impacting them in the present.

In her free time, Shannon enjoys traveling, playing music, writing, yoga, meditation, and biking. She is an avid lover of the outdoors and appreciates any activity that puts her in nature. Shannon has a background in herbal medicine and has a passion for exploring the mind-body-emotion connection in relation to the natural world.

Certifications & Additional Trainings

• Somatic Experiencing trained (Beginning I & II)

• Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) trained

• Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) advanced trained

• Gottman Method for Couples (Level 1) trained

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT-Part 1) trained

• Trained in Mindfulness-Based Stressed Reduction (MBSR) techniques

• Emotional Freedom Technique/Tapping (EFT) trained