About Shannon
Shannon Oberndorf is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and trauma. She guides clients through practical steps to feel steadier and more able to handle day-to-day pressures. Her tone is straightforward and focused on small, doable changes.
With 20 years of experience, Shannon draws on several approaches to match what a person needs. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She also leans on attachment-based ideas to look at how early patterns influence current relationships. Sessions are client-centered, which means the person’s goals shape the work. Shannon helps people set clear, real goals and checks in about progress each week.
She uses mindfulness practices to help with stress, sleep, and grounding when emotions feel overwhelming. Her background includes long experience with grief, caregiver strain, addiction concerns, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people dealing with family of origin issues, blended family dynamics, codependency, and communication problems.
These areas often come up together, and she helps clients untangle the overlaps. Shannon practices in Colorado as an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She offers sessions in English and provides several online formats to suit different needs.
The emphasis is on practical tools, steady support, and helping people find more balance in daily life.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships. Online sessions can use this approach to improve communication, repair trust, and change long-standing patterns. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. It often includes homework between sessions and clear techniques for reducing anxiety and improving sleep.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust if something is not helping. This makes therapy more practical and goal-oriented rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - give flexibility for busy lives. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and practicing skills in the moment. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick support, brief skill practice, and steady check-ins between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, or other demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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