About Carolyn
Carolyn "Kari" Homan Shannon meets people where they are and helps them find ways forward. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 18 years of experience. Her style is direct and practical, with an emphasis on emotional release and getting unstuck.
Kari focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem and trauma and abuse. She also helps with relationship and family concerns, sleep problems, anger, career transitions, and coping with big life changes.
Background and approach
First responder issues, compassion fatigue, and chronic illness are among other areas she addresses. In sessions she often begins by identifying the most pressing emotional or behavioral blocks. She uses a mix of approaches to help people move through strong feelings and regain function.
That can include learning new coping skills, practicing emotion regulation, and addressing patterns that keep problems in place. Her practical aim is to reduce immediate distress so people can return to daily life with more ease. After initial relief, work shifts toward skills-based learning to handle future challenges.
Kari describes her way of working as focused on rapid emotional release followed by education and skill building. People who choose her often want straightforward, action-oriented help for persistent emotional pain. She provides services in English and sees clients in Texas and internationally through online formats.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step gets the process started.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting driven by them, then choose values-based actions. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going, which can be useful for mood, sleep, and anxiety issues. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding and processing core emotions to shift how people react, and it can ease persistent emotional pain.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they will try techniques, review progress, and adjust methods so the plan fits the client's needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support short updates, skill practice between meetings, or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work even when in-person visits are impractical.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English