About Shannon
Shannon Jones is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on practical, evidence-based support for stress, anxiety, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. She works to create straightforward goals and helps people use their own strengths to handle stressful moments. Shannon has three years of professional experience and practices in Texas.
Her approach centers on simple, actionable steps rather than jargon. She listens for what matters most to each person and helps build small changes that add up.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on coping skills, managing strong emotions, and increasing motivation and confidence. Shannon also helps with issues that connect to relationships and life transitions, such as attachment concerns, adoption and foster care histories, blended family dynamics, fatherhood questions, and divorce or separation. She addresses communication problems, control issues, feelings of emptiness, and forgiveness work in straightforward terms.
For people caring for others, she offers support for caregiver stress and related burnout. Body image concerns, commitment worries, and the effects of domestic violence are also areas she addresses with attention to safety and pacing. Shannon’s style is collaborative.
She treats the person in front of her as the expert on their life and focuses on strengths. Starting therapy is noted as a brave step, and she aims to make the process manageable and respectful of each person’s pace.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Shannon uses plain, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage emotions and build coping skills. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Another approach centers on skills for managing strong emotions and anger, teaching breathing, grounding, and short behavioral practices that can be used in the moment.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins, skill practice, and scheduling easier between longer sessions. These options let people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while still working with licensed professionals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Arizona, Nevada
- Languages
- English