Shannon Amabile

Shannon Amabile is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Los Angeles, California. She brings eight years of clinical experience and has worked with creative clients in the entertainment industry since 2015.

She focuses on helping clients navigate the emotional effects of working within the entertainment “machine” and the culture that surrounds it, with the aim of supporting a meaningful and joyful quality of life. Shannon works to empower people to process and resolve interpersonal and personal struggles, to heal from lingering pain, and to feel equipped and confident when facing future challenges.

Her approach leans on solution-oriented models and behavioral interventions designed to provide relief as soon as possible while enabling clients to make the changes they want. She practices from a curiosity-based, non-judgmental stance and prioritizes creating space for clients to tell their stories and feel heard.

Central to her work is cultivating hope and promoting self-trust through self-discovery, self-identification, and self-interpretation. She also emphasizes communication skills, mindfulness, and de-escalation techniques for moments of crisis, and encourages clients to recognize themselves as the experts in their own lives.

Shannon has practiced in educational, residential, corporate, and production-related settings, and provides therapy both in-office and virtually. She supports people facing depression, anxiety, romantic relationship challenges, child rearing and parenting issues, grief and loss, adjustment and transition, long-term maintenance and recovery from addiction, past personal and family-of-origin trauma and abuse, and other interpersonal and collaborative career relationship struggles.

Her therapeutic methods include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Narrative Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy, along with Bowen Family Systems, Existential Therapy, and Trauma-Focused CBT. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, which indicates she has met the state requirements for training and licensure to practice.