About Shannon
Shannon Brailsford is a counsellor working in the United Kingdom. She brings four years of experience and a gentle, person-centred way of working. Shannon creates space for people who feel overwhelmed, unsure or stuck and helps them clarify what matters most to them.
She focuses on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Work issues, compassion fatigue and questions about career direction also feature in her practice.
Background and approach
Shannon listens for the patterns behind problems, like low confidence, people-pleasing or overcommitting, and helps people notice what they want instead. Sessions are led by the client and move at a comfortable pace. Shannon uses an integrative approach and draws on client-centred practice, mindfulness, psychodynamic ideas and parts work to help people understand themselves better.
Conversations may look at early patterns, self-limiting beliefs and how these influence current choices. She aims to help people build practical steps that fit their life. This might include simple mindfulness exercises, clearer boundaries at work, or new ways of talking to oneself when guilt or shame appears.
The emphasis is on small, manageable change that feels authentic. Shannon understands how worrying it can be to ask for help, having been in the client seat herself. She offers a respectful, curious and compassionate presence while people find their way through difficult feelings and decisions.
Approaches to explore online and how sessions work
Shannon often uses client-centred therapy which focuses on listening closely and following the client’s pace. This approach helps people who need a compassionate space to talk about stress, anxiety and life transitions.She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach simple, practical exercises for managing overwhelm. Mindfulness can help with racing thoughts, workplace stress and feelings of isolation by training attention and easing reactivity.
Psychodynamic ideas are used to look at recurring patterns and where they might have come from. This can be useful for people who notice the same problems reappearing in different situations, such as relationship difficulties or low self-worth.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and Shannon treats it as collaborative. She will discuss different ways of working and help decide what fits a person’s goals, preferences and everyday life. Together they check in and adapt the approach as progress unfolds.
Online therapy with Shannon is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is good for longer conversations, phone calls suit people who prefer audio only, live chat and messaging allow quick check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to fit around work, family and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Depression
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- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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