About Shannon
Shannon Smith is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) based in Ohio who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She brings ten years of experience in behavioral health to sessions and speaks directly and compassionately with each person she meets. Shannon aims to help clients find practical steps they can use between appointments.
Shannon uses a person-centered style that emphasizes listening and validation. She draws on several evidence-based approaches to tailor work to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill-building for coping, grounding techniques to calm intense feelings, and strategies to manage sleep, eating, or impulsivity concerns. Her background combines civilian clinical work and service as a social work officer in the Army National Guard. That mix has shaped a careful, detail-focused approach and a direct way of noticing patterns that get in the way of daily functioning.
Shannon also integrates Christian values when clients want that included in care. People who meet with Shannon can expect short-term practical tools alongside longer-term skill development. She supports work on relationship concerns, grief, career stress, caregiver strain, and first responder issues, among other areas.
Sessions aim to empower clients to use their strengths and move toward clearer goals. Shannon offers sessions in English and sees clients in Ohio, while also working with international clients by online methods. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and the frustration that comes with ADHD. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for sleep, eating issues, and mood regulation. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and can help people improve how they relate to others and manage attachment wounds.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shannon will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and daily life. That collaborative process means trying techniques, noticing what helps, and adjusting the plan as needed.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls let people work face-to-face when that feels helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break or commute. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options help people access therapy from different time zones and schedules while focusing on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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