About Shannon
Shannon Williams is an LPC who helps people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, addiction, grief, and relationship concerns. He uses direct, practical conversations to help clients find clearer next steps. He aims to make sessions straightforward and focused on what matters most to each person.
Shannon brings three years of counseling experience across clinics, hospitals, and community settings in Georgia. He has worked in independent practice, a drug addiction and mental health hospital, and as a liaison therapist with juvenile and family services.
Background and approach
He has also supported people in residential youth programs and church youth counseling roles. His way of working centers on listening closely and offering tools clients can try between sessions. He mixes evidence-based techniques with plain-language coaching.
That can mean skills for managing strong emotions, strategies to improve sleep and routine, or ways to reduce worry and improve focus. Shannon often draws from cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment approaches, attachment-focused thinking, and skills-based strategies for emotional regulation. He adjusts methods to the person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Sessions tend to emphasize clear goals and measurable steps. Outside of clinical work he writes about motivation and coping, and he enjoys exercise and reading. Shannon’s practical style aims to help people make steady, realistic changes in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small, committed steps toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It is often useful for stress, anxiety, and challenges like adjusting to life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and replacing them with practical strategies and experiments to test new ways of coping. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and ADHD-related difficulties. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and communication, and it can be helpful for intimacy issues, relationship conflict, and managing emotional triggers.Finding the right combination of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there Shannon tailors sessions and suggests specific techniques, checking in regularly to adjust the plan as needed.
Online therapy offers a range of formats to fit different needs: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video isn’t practical, live chat for a shorter, focused check-in, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or mobility limits, and they let people choose the format that helps them stay consistent with their goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating disorders
- 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
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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