About Shannon
Shannon Gutwein is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience practicing in Wyoming. She helps people who are facing depression, anxiety, relationship strain, addiction, ADHD, and major life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, and she aims to make therapy feel manageable for everyday life.
Shannon listens first and shapes sessions around each person’s real concerns. She uses clear, practical tools to address stress, anger, grief, burnout, and career or intimacy challenges.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is most helpful now rather than on jargon or long lectures. Her background combines client-centered care with cognitive and behavioral strategies. That means she pays attention to each person’s values and goals while teaching skills for emotion regulation, communication, and coping.
Mindfulness and motivational methods are woven in to boost self-awareness and momentum. Shannon often helps people untangle patterns tied to family of origin, codependency, abandonment, or caregiver strain. She also supports those facing first-responder stress, substance issues, and co-occurring mood disorders.
The work is practical and paced to the client’s readiness for change. Sessions are offered in formats that fit busy lives, including video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Shannon aims to help clients build skills they can use between sessions and to create measurable steps toward clearer functioning and steadier mood.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online sessions
Shannon draws on client-centered work that puts the person’s goals first and cognitive behavioral therapy that looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Client-centered work means the therapist follows your pace and priorities, while CBT offers practical exercises to test new ways of thinking and acting.She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach skills for handling intense emotions and improving relationships. DBT-style skills focus on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can help with mood swings, anger, or relationship conflict. Together these methods are chosen to match what a client needs and wants to change rather than enforcing a single approach.
Finding the right approach happens in collaboration. Shannon will talk with you about goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what helps. Clients often try a mix of listening, skill practice, and short assignments between sessions to build momentum.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video lets you work visually and practice communication. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or keeping momentum between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming
- Languages
- English
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