About Shanell
Shanell Manson is a licensed independent social worker who brings a practical, down-to-earth approach to therapy. She has 10 years of experience and works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strains. Shanell emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassionate listening in each session.
She adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's situation. That means sessions focus on what matters to the client - easing worry, improving communication, or managing life changes.
Background and approach
Shanell helps people sort through grief, trauma, parenting stress, and issues around identity and intimacy. Her background includes a decade of clinical work across settings, which gives her experience with a wide range of concerns. She aims to make goals concrete and manageable so progress feels real and clear.
Sessions often look at patterns in thinking and behavior that contribute to ongoing stress. Shanell works with people dealing with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, and caregiver stress. She also addresses attachment and codependency issues, eating and hoarding concerns, and the fallout of separation or divorce.
Practical strategies and steady support are central to her practice. People who choose Shanell can expect straightforward guidance and a collaborative tone. She helps clients weigh options and try new ways of coping.
The goal is better day-to-day functioning and a sense of more control over difficult situations.
Therapeutic approaches and flexible online care
Shanell works from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building practical coping skills. One common approach looks at thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms by teaching concrete strategies for managing worry and improving daily routines. Another approach concentrates on attachment and relationship patterns to help people improve communication, set boundaries, and rebuild trust after conflict or loss.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Shanell collaborates with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust plans as progress is made. She helps clients weigh options and pick strategies that feel doable for their life and preferences.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule. Video allows fuller interaction and visual cues, phone can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support brief updates or between-session check-ins. These formats offer flexibility so people can work on anxiety, stress, relationships, and other concerns without rearranging their whole day.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Shanell commonly help with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much clinical experience does she have?
Where is she licensed and based?
Which languages are available for sessions?
What session formats does she offer?
How are costs and billing handled?
How do I begin working with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.