About Shannon
Shannon Akins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 22 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes in practical, down-to-earth ways. She works with concerns tied to relationships and attachment, including blended family issues and codependency.
Shannon also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, questions about sexuality, and searching for life purpose. Her style is empathetic and steady, aimed at helping people feel understood while they make changes.
How Shannon works
In sessions she listens closely and helps people name what matters to them. Together she and the client identify small, doable steps to ease daily strain and rebuild confidence. She emphasizes building coping skills that fit each person’s life and goals.
Shannon draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide work on patterns, emotional habits, and relationship dynamics. She frames therapy as a collaborative effort and checks in often to make sure the plan stays useful. Progress is measured in real-life improvements like better mood, clearer priorities, and stronger boundaries.
Her practice aims to help people regain a sense of direction and self-compassion. Shannon offers a calm, practical presence for those ready to tackle difficult feelings and make steady changes.
What Shannon works with
The areas below are the ones Shannon selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Shannon uses evidence-based techniques that focus on understanding patterns and building practical skills. One common approach she uses helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and low mood. This method teaches concrete skills for managing worry and negative self-talk.Another approach focuses on attachment and relationship patterns. It helps people see how early relationship experiences shape current reactions and then practices new ways of relating. That work is useful for addressing codependency, blended family tensions, and recurring relationship conflicts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shannon treats therapy as a collaboration and will help figure out which techniques fit each person's needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan when something isn’t helping.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people keep momentum toward their goals.
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