About Shannon
Shannon Long is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship and parenting challenges. She speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel straightforward. Shannon works with people who are coping with trauma, grief, addictions, gender identity questions, and life transitions.
Sessions are offered in English and she practices from South Carolina. Shannon brings 11 years of counseling experience to her work. She uses practical methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens first, then helps set clear goals and small steps clients can try between meetings. Her background includes helping people with mood concerns like bipolar disorder and disruptive mood dysregulation, along with ADHD, eating issues, and body image struggles. She also supports those dealing with adoption and foster care questions, attachment concerns, and blended family stress.
Shannon combines solution-focused thinking with trauma-informed care when needed. That means she helps people find immediate, manageable changes while also addressing deeper painful events when they come up. She adjusts pace based on what each person can handle.
People who work with her can expect straightforward talk, concrete coping skills, and a plan that fits their daily life. She can offer video, phone, live chat, or text-based sessions to match different needs and schedules.
How these approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting connection. In practice this means the therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects feelings, and helps people find their own solutions. It’s useful for relationship stress, self-esteem concerns, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Shannon helps clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and tries small behavior experiments to change how they feel. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with daily stressors.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try approaches that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Clients help shape what techniques are used and the pace of work.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people write thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, school, or busy family days while trying approaches like CBT or client-centered work.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English