About Shannan
Shannan Katz greets people with a calm, straightforward style. She focuses on helping individuals cope with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, and life transitions. Shannan invites open conversation and aims to make people feel heard and respected as they talk through what matters most.
Shannan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, and also holds LPCC. She draws on 11 years of clinical experience to help clients sort out thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions often begin with listening, then move toward practical steps that fit the client's goals and daily life. Her approach blends client-centered care with goal-oriented techniques. That means she listens first, then uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when helpful.
She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods to support change and clearer decision-making. Shannan has experience with a wide range of concerns, including depression, addictions, trauma, grief, body-image and sexual concerns, and issues related to parenting and aging. She welcomes LGBTQIA clients and people who want to discuss sexuality, including kink and alternative sex culture.
In practice she balances a gentle, heart-centered stance with direct, structured feedback when needed. Initial appointments are typically by video and many follow-ups are by phone, though other online formats are available. She asks people to be mindful that her practice is not intended for crisis situations involving self-harm or suicidal behavior.
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
Shannan uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy as core ways to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and meeting the person where they are; it helps people feel understood and more willing to try change. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behavior patterns and introduces concrete strategies for managing symptoms like anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.Shannan also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotional regulation or intense distress are part of the picture. DBT offers practical skills for tolerating distress, managing emotions, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be helpful for relationship and anger concerns.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked in the past. Together they pick techniques that match the situation and adjust as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions are useful for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick updates, ongoing coaching, or brief skill practice between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Massachusetts, California
- Languages
- English