About Shannon
Shannon Kaufman is an Ohio licensed professional clinical counselor with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, mood concerns, and ADHD. Shannon aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable for people who are unsure what to expect.
She creates a calm space where clients can talk without judgment. Conversations are straightforward and paced to each person. Shannon listens for what matters most and helps set small, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Her practical work draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to notice unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses client-centered methods to follow each person's priorities and experiences. When emotions run high, she uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy to stabilize and build coping tools.
Shannon has helped people with relationship stress, parenting challenges, intimacy concerns, career pressure, and identity-related issues. She also supports those facing trauma, compassion fatigue, or life transitions that feel overwhelming. Sessions are aimed at clearer thinking and calmer daily routines.
People can expect a collaborative approach that mixes problem-solving with emotional support. Shannon explains ideas in plain language and focuses on steps people can use between sessions. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging for flexible scheduling.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's pace and priorities. It helps people clarify what matters to them and shape goals that feel doable. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete strategies to change them, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and focus problems.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they’ll try methods that fit the person's life and adjust over time based on what works.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging can work well for quick check-ins, short coaching moments, or when written reflection feels easier. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain progress between in-person commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Emptiness
- 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
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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