About Shannon
Dr. Shannon Hunter is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 19 years of experience helping people reduce stress and handle life changes. She focuses on practical coping skills and real tools people can use day to day.
Her style is calm, direct, and encouraging. She blends talk therapy with psycho-educational information. That means conversations are paired with clear teaching about how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect.
Sessions often include step-by-step strategies for anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
Her background covers both education and mental health counseling. She holds a doctorate in Educational Psychology and masters degrees in Counseling and Education. Much of her early training was completed at Texas Tech University.
She has worked in independent practice, group clinics, integrated health care settings, state facilities, and on university campuses. That range shaped an approach that is practical and adaptable to different needs and life situations. Therapeutic methods she uses include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work, and client-centered methods.
These approaches are used to address grief, trauma, eating and sleep problems, ADHD, caregiver stress, and more. People in sessions can expect attentive listening, straightforward feedback, and help building skills they can use at home. Dr.
Hunter aims to create a supportive space where clients can talk through concerns without judgment.
Online approaches and how they fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and provides practical exercises to reduce symptoms like panic, low mood, or sleep problems. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental relationship and supports people in finding their own answers while the therapist listens and reflects.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they adjust methods and try different techniques until a good fit is found.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is helpful when face-to-face conversation is preferred, phone can work when bandwidth is low, live chat or messaging can fit brief check-ins or busy schedules. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work breaks, caregiving routines, or other commitments while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English