About Shannon
Shannon Talley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and mood-related concerns. She draws on eight years of experience to offer steady support while clients take steps toward change. Shannon emphasizes clients' strengths and personal knowledge of their own lives.
She approaches work from a holistic viewpoint with attention to attachment and relationships. Sessions can be direct and action-oriented when someone wants concrete steps.
Background and approach
At other times she moves more slowly and focuses on holding space for feelings and stories to be told. Shannon uses techniques that help people notice patterns, try new behaviors, and practice skills outside sessions. She may encourage mindful exercises to calm the nervous system or cognitive strategies to test unhelpful thoughts.
Motivation-based conversation is used when clients want help building momentum for change. Clients who are navigating identity and life transitions can explore values and meaning during sessions. She also addresses concerns such as addiction, intimacy-related problems, parenting stress, ADHD, and issues related to gender dysphoria and LGBT identity.
Hospice and end-of-life topics, hoarding, intellectual disability considerations, and seasonal affective patterns are additional areas of focus. Shannon strives for a collaborative process. She helps people set goals, try new approaches, and reflect on what works.
Her aim is to support clearer choices and a greater sense of agency over daily life.
Approach and access for online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy centers on how relationships shape emotional responses. It helps people understand patterns from close relationships and try different ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; it helps people test unhelpful thoughts and practice new coping skills for anxiety and mood concerns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and improve moment-to-moment awareness.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match goals, personality, and life demands. Together they may mix direct skill practice with reflective conversations to create a plan that feels manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues during deep conversations. Phone sessions can be lighter on bandwidth and may fit a short break at work. Live chat or text is useful for quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity during life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Gender dysphoria
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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