About Shannon
Shannon Hartman is a California licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and major life changes. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that relieve immediate distress. Shannon emphasizes client strengths and works alongside each person as they rebuild hope and direction.
Shannon uses clear, straightforward methods in sessions. She draws from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and develop different responses.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients clarify values and take small actions that matter to them. Attachment-based work and a client-centered stance shape how she builds trust. Those approaches help when relationships, abandonment, or communication problems are part of the struggle.
She pays attention to patterns that show up again and again in connections with others. Shannon also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, addiction concerns, and issues around identity and intimacy. She helps with practical problems like sleep disruption, anger, or low self-esteem.
Her style is collaborative and paced to each person's needs. When someone starts with Shannon they can expect clear goals, homework that fits their life, and options for video, phone, chat, or text sessions. She invites people to take one small step toward feeling better and will help them keep going.
How Shannon’s approaches translate to online therapy
Shannon commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. ACT helps people name what matters to them and take small actions that reflect those values, which is useful for anxiety and life transitions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and practicing alternative ways of responding to stress and mood challenges.She also brings an attachment-informed and client-centered perspective to sessions, paying attention to relationship patterns and honoring each person’s experience. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Shannon will collaboratively explore goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what fits the client’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility that many people need. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins and progress tracking simple between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy or unpredictable schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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