Shannon Rosenbauer, LCSW-C

Shannon Rosenbauer is a Licensed Certified Social Worker in Maryland with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship concerns alongside grief, coping with major life changes, stress, anxiety, and issues like addiction and low self-esteem. Shannon creates a warm, nonjudgmental space so people can speak honestly about what they are facing.

She supports people dealing with chronic or life-threatening illness, including cancer and long-term conditions. She also helps those facing caregiver strain, bereavement, and end-of-life planning. Practical problem solving and emotional support are common parts of her work.

Shannon draws from several therapeutic methods to match what each person needs. She uses client-centered listening to prioritize each person’s perspective. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test small behavior changes.

Mindfulness tools are offered to help manage anxiety and stress in the moment. Motivational Interviewing methods are used when someone wants help building momentum for change. Psychodynamic ideas may inform deeper conversations about patterns and relationships.

Sessions focus on clear goals and real-world steps like coping skills, communication strategies, and self-care planning. The tone in sessions tends to be collaborative and practical, with attention to how challenges show up in daily life. Shannon encourages people to take the next step when they feel ready.

Approaches for remote relationship and life change work

Shannon commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy to make space for each person’s concerns by listening carefully and following their priorities. This approach helps people feel heard and decide what to focus on first.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thinking that contribute to stress, anxiety, or low mood. CBT offers clear techniques and small experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting, which can be useful for relationship patterns and coping with life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose methods based on goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative planning can change over time as progress is made or new issues arise.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, since the biography does not list them. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten commute time, or allow a check-in when a longer visit isn’t possible. It also lets people use mindfulness practice and behavioral experiments between sessions to test what helps in everyday life.