About Shannon
Shannon Gollner is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress and anxiety, grief and loss, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. She emphasizes a strengths-based approach and encourages clients to take steps toward a more fulfilling life. Shannon writes plainly and focuses on practical changes people can use right away.
She believes clients are the experts on their own stories and draws on their strengths. Sessions focus on building coping skills, boosting motivation, and increasing confidence.
Background and approach
Shannon offers straightforward support and practical strategies rather than abstract theory. With 19 years of professional experience, Shannon has worked across different settings and with a range of concerns. That background informs her ability to respond to mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and relationship stresses without using jargon.
She keeps goals clear and measurable so progress feels real. Her additional focus areas include attachment concerns, blended family stresses, caregiver strain, codependency, commitment worries, and issues like jealousy or infidelity. Shannon also works with multicultural concerns and non-monogamous relationship dynamics, helping people sort through complexity and values.
In sessions she aims to create a practical plan that fits daily life. Shannon encourages small, doable steps and coaches clients through setbacks. Her approach combines steady support with concrete tools to manage symptoms and move toward goals.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Shannon uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on building skills and changing unhelpful patterns. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches concrete coping tools for anxiety and stress, such as breathing, behavioral experiments, and activity scheduling to lift mood. These tools are practiced in sessions and adapted to daily routines.She also uses problem-focused strategies to address relationship stress, codependency, and attachment concerns by identifying patterns and trying new interaction steps. For obsessive or compulsive symptoms, treatment often centers on gradual exposure and response planning to reduce unwanted behaviors over time.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Shannon collaborates with each client to pick methods that fit their goals, lifestyle, and what feels most helpful. She checks in and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video lets people use visual cues and practice skills in real time, phone calls can be a simple check-in with less bandwidth, and messaging supports brief updates or reflections between sessions. These options give flexibility so clients can keep momentum even when schedules are tight.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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