About Shannan
Shannan OConnor is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or relationship struggles. She works with individuals facing family conflict, intimacy concerns, grief, or career stress. Her approach treats each person as the expert on their life and builds on existing strengths to make change feel manageable.
Shannan has five years of professional experience as an LMFT in California.
How Shannan works
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people cope with panic, depression, and compassion fatigue. She also supports those dealing with identity and LGBT concerns, multicultural stressors, and social anxiety. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Shannan focuses on skills people can use between sessions to reduce anxiety, address control issues, and improve self-esteem. She also helps parents manage caregiver stress and those wrestling with guilt or isolation. Her style is straightforward and supportive.
Conversations tend to be problem-focused but respectful of each person’s story. The goal is to leave each session with clearer next steps and small, realistic changes to try. Shannan offers therapy in English and accepts international clients.
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose the format that fits their life.
What Shannan works with
The areas below are the ones Shannan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Shannan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and symptom relief. One approach emphasizes teaching skills to manage anxiety and panic attacks, such as breathing strategies and short behavioral exercises to reduce avoidance and overwhelm. Another approach centers on improving relationships and intimacy by clarifying communication patterns and trying small behavioral experiments to shift interaction cycles.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist and client review goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan as progress and life circumstances change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to keep therapy consistent. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and deeper interaction. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to touch base between sessions, track progress, or work through small moments as they arise. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different time zones.
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