About Shannon
Dr. Shannon Hunter is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 19 years of experience. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and improve day-to-day functioning.
Her work includes attention to ADHD alongside concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, and addictions. She combines talk therapy with psycho-education so people learn both understanding and skills. That's how coping strategies, mindfulness, and concrete techniques become part of daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at identifying small changes that add up over time. Her background spans education and mental health. She earned three degrees from Texas Tech University and holds a doctorate in educational psychology.
She has worked in independent practice, clinics, integrated health settings, state facilities, and on university campuses. Dr. Hunter uses approaches like cognitive behavioral work, dialectical behavior ideas, acceptance and commitment strategies, attachment-based thinking, and a client-centered stance.
She shapes plans around each person's needs and goals instead of using a one-size-fits-all method. Her style is calm, straightforward, and encouraging. She emphasizes active listening and supportive feedback so people can speak openly without judgment.
Many clients come to her to learn tools for coping with life changes, managing attention and focus, and rebuilding confidence.
Therapeutic approaches and what they offer online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It helps with anxiety, stress, and living well despite ongoing challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches step-by-step skills to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and attention-related difficulties. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to relational patterns and emotional bonds and can help people understand how past relationships shape current reactions and closeness.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person's needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for fuller face-to-face conversations, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing connection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, allow shorter or more frequent touchpoints when useful, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, practice new behaviors, and track progress over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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