About Shannon
Shannon Akins is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 22 years of experience based in Texas. She helps people who are feeling anxious, stressed, down, or stuck in repeating relationship patterns. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at making hard conversations feel manageable.
She focuses on everyday struggles like anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. She also helps people work through attachment concerns, blended family challenges, codependency, and family problems.
Background and approach
Shannon pays attention to feelings such as guilt, shame, and questions about sexuality or life purpose. Sessions are practical and conversational. Shannon listens first, then helps people try clearer ways of thinking and acting.
She works with clients to build coping skills they can use between sessions and to notice small changes that add up over time. Her work centers on understanding how past patterns affect present choices. She supports people as they practice new responses, set boundaries, or repair important relationships.
The aim is to grow resilience and self-compassion while moving toward goals the person cares about. Shannon brings a calm, steady presence and a focus on real-life results. She will meet clients where they are and help them find clearer steps forward for managing anxiety and other concerns.
Approaches that meet you where you are online
Shannon uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood by practicing different responses to stressful situations. Another approach looks at relationship and attachment patterns to understand how early connections shape present reactions, useful for people struggling with codependency, blended family issues, or repeating relationship cycles.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Shannon collaborates with each person to figure out what feels most helpful based on their goals, preferences, and life circumstances. She adjusts methods as progress is made so therapy stays relevant and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera, and chat or messaging lets people check in between meetings or fit brief sessions into a busy day. These options make it easier to maintain steady work on anxiety and life changes without long travel or scheduling hurdles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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