About Shannon
Shannon Gaiser is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania with 17 years of clinical experience. She draws on long work in addiction and co-occurring concerns and aims to offer practical, down-to-earth support. Shannon writes in a direct and accepting way and focuses on helping people find a path that fits their life.
Her background includes years in both inpatient and outpatient settings and independent practice alongside medication-assisted treatment providers.
How Shannon works
That experience informs how she supports people managing substance use, depression, anxiety, bipolar symptoms, and trauma after abuse. She also helps individuals sort through family problems, communication struggles, and the fallout from divorce or separation. In sessions Shannon uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral tools and motivational interviewing.
She combines those methods with mindfulness exercises and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people notice what matters and take small steps toward it. Her style is straightforward and collaborative, with an emphasis on realistic coping and measurable change. Shannon has personal recovery experience and says that perspective shapes how she listens and responds.
She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. People who want a practical, nonjudgmental approach that respects individual paths often find her style helpful. Her practice focuses on a wide range of concerns including stress, grief, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and addiction-related issues.
Shannon works with LGBT concerns, family of origin issues, fatherhood matters, and problems like codependency, commitment, and control struggles.
Shannon lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters and take small steps toward those values. It uses practical actions and simple awareness exercises to reduce getting stuck on painful thoughts or feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by practicing new ways of thinking and acting. Motivational Interviewing is a conversational, nonjudgmental method to strengthen a person’s own motivation for change and can be especially useful around substance use or behavior change.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Shannon works collaboratively to pick methods that match each person’s goals and preferences. She can try different techniques and adjust them based on what helps in real life.
Online therapy here is offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and texting make brief check-ins or on-the-go support possible. These options increase flexibility for scheduling, fit around work and family demands, and let people choose the format that feels most practical for them.
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