About Shannon
Shannon Kaufman is an Ohio licensed professional clinical counselor with 14 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or major life changes. She supports those dealing with addiction, grief, and questions about intimacy and relationships.
Shannon creates a calm, nonjudgmental space so people can speak honestly about what matters to them. Shannon combines client-centered listening with practical strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
How Shannon works
That means she listens first, then helps people try small, manageable steps to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses motivational interviewing to support change and trauma-focused work when painful memories get in the way of daily life. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
People leave with simple tools they can use between sessions - breathing and grounding practices, communication techniques, and short behavioral experiments. Shannon pays attention to life context, including parenting stress, career strain, caregiving demands, and the specific challenges of LGBTQ clients.
She offers help for concerns like ADHD, bipolar symptoms, body image, abandonment and attachment difficulties, blended family challenges, and chronic health problems. Her approach is practical and compassionate, aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes. Shannon works with English-speaking clients in Ohio and conducts sessions via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
The therapy subscription can be canceled at any time, and clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
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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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Emptiness
- 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
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
How Shannon’s Approaches Work Online
Shannon blends client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to address everyday struggles. Client-centered therapy means she listens closely and follows what matters most to the person, creating space to talk without judgment. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, low mood, and stress.She often uses dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings feel overwhelming. DBT offers concrete techniques for managing strong emotions and improving communication. Together these approaches give both understanding and practical steps to try between sessions, and Shannon will work with each person to find the right mix based on their goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing coaching and quick reflections. These options let people fit therapy into busy lives and try different formats as needs change.
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