About Shannon
Shannon Powe-Saunders is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania with 18 years in the helping field. She started out linking people with mental health and substance use needs to community resources. Over time she moved into counseling, working directly with clients on a range of life challenges.
Her work focuses on practical problems like anxiety, stress, depression, substance use, and relationship struggles. She also addresses grief, trauma, parenting strain, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and issues tied to family of origin and attachment.
Background and approach
She speaks plain language and listens for what matters most to each person. Shannon uses a mix of approaches to meet people where they are. She draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time and client-centered methods to follow the person's own goals. Motivational interviewing is part of her toolkit when someone is unsure about change or needs help building commitment. Mindfulness techniques are offered to help manage stress and increase present-moment awareness.
The session pace and focus are shaped by the individual's needs. Respect and empathy guide her conversations. She aims to be relatable and steady while helping people navigate painful moments.
To begin, she asks people to share their concerns and together they plan practical steps toward coping and positive change.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s goals and experience. The therapist listens closely and follows what the client finds most important, helping shape each session around real-life concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and many daily struggles because it leads to practical skill-building.Deciding on an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they choose techniques and adjust them over time so sessions stay useful and manageable.
Online formats offer flexibility for fitting therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, short progress notes, or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to maintain momentum and practice new skills across daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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