About Michelle
Michelle Shannon welcomes people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about next steps. She introduces a calm, steady presence and helps clients name what matters most to them. Her approach aims to make sessions practical and straightforward so people can leave with something useful to try between meetings.
Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC practicing in Oregon with 15 years of experience. She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, career struggles, and major life changes.
Background and approach
She also focuses on communication problems, control issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and women's issues. Michelle blends client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior ideas. She uses mindfulness exercises to help clients notice reactions in the body and motivational interviewing to support clear, values-driven goals.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with space to process hard emotions. In sessions she prioritizes a nonjudgmental tone and clear steps forward. That might mean practicing a coping skill, trying a small experiment, or talking through a painful memory at a pace that feels manageable.
The work is collaborative; goals are set together and adjusted as things change. People who choose Michelle often want straightforward help with coping and clearer direction in life. She aims to empower clients to make choices that fit their values and to build skills that hold up outside of the therapy room.
Approaches that translate to online sessions
Michelle often uses client-centered therapy to prioritize the client's experience and goals, creating space to be heard and to set the direction of work. This approach helps when people need someone to listen and help them sort priorities and values.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on recognizing patterns of thinking and trying specific behavioral changes. CBT is useful for stress, anxiety, and problems that benefit from practical coping strategies. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used as well to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings feel overwhelming.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work and will happen together. The therapist will check in about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try techniques that match those needs. Adjustments are made as progress and circumstances evolve.
Online therapy with Michelle can take place by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and practicing skills with visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief support, homework check-ins, or when writing is easier than speaking. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules.
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- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English