About Shannon
Shannon Wise is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 12 years of experience in mental health work. She practices in Alabama and focuses on practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. Shannon listens without judgment and adapts her approach to each person’s needs.
She uses clear, goal-focused work to help with sleep problems, anger, mood swings, and relationship stress. Shannon also supports people facing grief, low self-esteem, bipolar symptoms, and challenges tied to life purpose or emptiness.
Background and approach
Her experience includes crisis stabilization in hospitals and work inside a correctional setting, which shaped her skills in safety planning and short-term stabilization. More recently she has worked in community independent practice with adults, teens, and couples. In those settings she helped clients set realistic goals and track progress.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach coping skills and distress tolerance. Sessions are collaborative and focused on small, workable steps. Shannon helps people learn tools for emotional regulation, improved communication, and healthier reactions to triggers.
She aims to renew hope by breaking problems into manageable tasks and celebrating incremental change. Shannon emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in each meeting. She invites people to be an active part of planning their care and to take steady steps toward clearer thinking and better day-to-day functioning.
How evidence-based approaches meet online care
Shannon commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; CBT is often used for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy is another approach she brings into sessions to teach coping skills, grounding, and distress tolerance for strong emotions and impulsivity. Motivational Interviewing helps people clarify their own goals and strengthen motivation to make changes when they feel stuck.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Shannon works with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks progress regularly and adjusts strategies so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send short updates, ask questions between sessions, or have brief check-ins when time is tight. These options offer flexibility while keeping the focus on building skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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