About Shannon
Shannon Williams is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia. He offers straightforward, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, or life changes. Shannon speaks plain language and focuses on small, doable steps clients can try between sessions.
He blends talk-based methods with skills practice. Sessions often include looking at thoughts and behaviors, trying new ways to handle strong emotions, and identifying personal values to guide change.
How Shannon works
Shannon uses approaches that emphasize acceptance, mindful action, and building healthier ways of relating to others. Shannon brings three years of professional counseling experience in a range of settings. His background includes work in independent practice and in settings addressing addiction and mental health.
That variety helps him tailor sessions to different life situations and stressors. He aims to be a clear communicator and an active listener. Shannon helps people break big problems into manageable pieces and practices concrete strategies in session.
He also draws on work with trauma-related concerns and emotion regulation when relevant. Outside of clinical work he writes about resilience and motivation. His interests in reading, exercise, and writing inform a practical, engaged approach to counseling.
Shannon offers help for a wide set of concerns and works collaboratively to set goals and track progress.
Shannon lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
How specific approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small actions toward those values. Online sessions can include exercises to notice thoughts and choose values-based steps a client can try between meetings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. In remote sessions clients work through thought records, behavior experiments, and homework using video or messaging to share progress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit the client's situation. This is a collaborative process and methods can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online formats offer several practical benefits. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief updates or coaching into a busy day. Together these options provide flexibility to continue therapy despite travel, shift work, or varied schedules.
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