About Shannon
Shannon Shackford is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people facing anxiety, depression, stress, and major life changes. She centers her work on building self-compassion and clearer communication so clients can handle hard moments with more confidence. Shannon uses practical talk therapy to help people manage panic attacks, heal from trauma, and cope with grief or separation.
She often helps clients uncover life purpose and tackle isolation or loneliness.
Background and approach
Sessions include straightforward tools to improve mood and daily functioning. Her style blends client-centered listening with strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. That means Shannon listens closely, helps people notice unhelpful thinking, and supports value-driven steps forward.
Motivational interviewing also appears in her work to strengthen commitment to change. With three years of professional experience as an LPC in Virginia, she draws on brief, focused interventions and longer reflective work depending on what someone needs. She follows the pace each person prefers and adjusts techniques accordingly.
Shannon supports people coping with ADHD, addictions, compassion fatigue, career challenges, and issues around self-esteem and self-love. Her goal is to help people develop reliable coping habits and clearer direction so they can move forward from a place of greater self-understanding.
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions aligned with personal values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and finding direction when life feels aimless. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like panic and persistent low mood. It offers concrete skills people can practice between sessions to see change over time. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathetic listening and validation so clients can feel understood and build self-compassion; it supports work on self-esteem, relationship communication, and grief.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shannon treats the selection of methods as a collaborative process and tailors the mix to each person’s goals, needs, and pace. She will check in about what helps and shift techniques if something does not fit.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English