About Shannon
Shannon Wilson, LMSW, uses a blend of practical therapies to help people manage anxiety, stress, and mood struggles. She writes and listens in straightforward ways so clients can feel understood. Her style focuses on building steady coping skills and clearer thinking for day-to-day life.
Shannon draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and develop new behavior patterns. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions and relationship patterns.
Background and approach
That combination is useful for people handling panic, obsessive thoughts, or low self-esteem. Her work includes supporting people who have experienced trauma or sexual assault and those dealing with mood disorders and seasonal affective changes. She also addresses relationship strain, blended family issues, codependency, and the ongoing effects of guilt and shame.
Sessions aim to reduce symptoms and improve everyday functioning. Shannon brings 25 years of experience as a licensed master social worker in Michigan. She adapts methods from client-centered therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when people need emotional regulation skills or a more collaborative, strengths-based approach.
Motivational interviewing is used when people want help making lasting changes. In sessions she focuses on clear goals, practical tools, and steady progress. People can expect straightforward conversation, skill practice, and plans they can try between sessions.
The emphasis is on usable strategies for real life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current ways of relating and reacting. It helps people understand patterns in their close relationships and build more stable connections with others.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with new behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, panic, obsessive thoughts, and mood concerns because it teaches concrete tools to change thinking and habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shannon will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and the problems they bring to sessions. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting strategies together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to keep regular work going. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, skill coaching between appointments, and a way to keep momentum when schedules are tight.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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