About Shannon
Shannon Williams is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and other life challenges. He writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person. His style is goal-focused and practical so people leave sessions with steps they can try right away.
Shannon brings three years of counseling experience across several settings. He has worked in independent practice, addiction and mental health hospitals, youth homes, and as a liaison with juvenile and family services.
Background and approach
That variety shaped his ability to adapt approaches to different situations and backgrounds. In sessions he combines practical strategies with attention to how past relationships affect current feelings. He uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and from acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify values and build meaningful action.
He also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at patterns that repeat in relationships. Shannon aims to be a clear communicator and an encouraging guide. He often recommends small, achievable steps between sessions so progress can be measured and adjusted.
He also includes mindfulness and emotion-regulation skills when strong feelings get in the way. Outside of work he writes about resilience and motivation and has published a book about coping with life’s storms. He offers sessions in English and works with international clients by video, phone, chat, or text-based messaging.
Approaches that guide online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small steps toward those values while learning to live alongside uncomfortable feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches practical techniques to change reactions and behaviors. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current responses and helps people create healthier ways of connecting and relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize acceptance and values, thought restructuring, or relationship-focused work, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when schedules or distance make in-person visits difficult. Phone sessions are a good fit when video bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing support between sessions and flexibility for people who prefer writing or need brief, timely contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep working toward goals from different locations and time constraints.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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