About Shannon
Shannon Schaeffer is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She offers calm, direct support for those dealing with trauma, loss, and changes that feel overwhelming. Her tone is steady and encouraging, aimed at people ready to take small steps toward feeling better.
Shannon aims to create a straightforward and nonjudgmental space. She listens to what feels most urgent and works with each person to set clear, doable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical tools that can be used between meetings as well as talking through difficult feelings in the moment. Her work draws on approaches that combine changing unhelpful thinking with mindful attention to present experience. She often uses techniques that help people notice patterns, try new responses, and commit to values that matter to them.
Shannon also explores deeper life questions when it helps clients make sense of their struggles. With a decade of practice, Shannon brings steady experience to common life crises like midlife shifts, separation, chronic illness, and feelings of isolation. She supports people dealing with substance concerns, codependency, and the fallout of past abuse in addition to mood and anxiety difficulties.
Shannon is licensed in Iowa as an LMHC, and she provides services in English. She offers several online formats so people can choose what fits their routine and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Shannon commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that align with their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence to change patterns that contribute to anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shannon will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, and then try techniques that fit the situation. She adjusts methods over time so sessions match the person's changing needs and progress.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter updates or ongoing encouragement between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care during transitions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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