About Shannon
Shannon Gaiser is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 17 years of clinical experience. She works from a place of lived experience and a long clinical history to help people manage anxiety, stress, addiction, and life transitions. Shannon approaches each person as an individual with their own path to recovery and change.
Shannon uses straightforward conversation and practical tools in sessions. She blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and motivational interviewing.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas are also part of her toolkit when they fit a person's goals. Her background includes years in inpatient and outpatient rehab settings and time in independent practice supporting people on medication-assisted treatment. That work exposed her to many forms of addiction and co-occurring concerns, and to the challenges that come with grief, trauma, depression, and family problems.
In sessions Shannon focuses on concrete steps people can take between meetings. She helps clients notice unhelpful patterns, practice small behavioral changes, and set goals that match their values. Conversations are direct but compassionate, aimed at building workable skills for day-to-day life.
Shannon offers several ways to stay connected, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. She works in English and welcomes people from outside the United States. Her approach suits people looking for practical support with anxiety, addiction recovery, parenting strain, and coping with major life changes.
How Shannon’s approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values even when anxiety or difficult feelings are present. It is useful for stress, life changes, and questions about purpose and direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, and coping when routines break down.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes being heard and respected while people figure out their next steps. It often pairs well with skills-based work and supports motivation and self-acceptance.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Shannon will talk with each person about goals and try techniques to see what fits best. She encourages feedback and adjusts plans so the work stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and teaching exercises, phone can be a lighter check-in that does not require video, and chat or text work well for quick updates, step-by-step coaching, or when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to keep momentum between sessions and to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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