About Shantel
Shantel Farrow helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or big life changes. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - with eight years of experience and is based in Oklahoma. Her style is calm and direct, aimed at practical steps people can try between sessions.
She offers a listening space where clients can talk through past trauma, relationship trouble, and struggles with self-esteem.
How Shantel works
Shantel combines attention to how relationships shape feelings with exercises that target thoughts and daily habits. This mix helps people feel steadier and more able to cope with day-to-day pressures. Her work often addresses grief, addiction, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, and the stress of caregiving or chronic illness.
She also focuses on attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family issues, and body image. Shantel uses approaches that match each person’s needs rather than one fixed method. Over the years she has helped people deal with career strain, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related challenges, and the effects of trauma and abuse.
Sessions can include skills practice, gentle exploration of past experiences, and planning practical changes to routines and relationships. Shantel sees international clients and conducts sessions in English. New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling sessions according to availability.
The first meetings are used to set goals and choose the most helpful strategies going forward.
Shantel lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Shantel works with
The areas below are the ones Shantel 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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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 disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
How Shantel’s Methods Work Online
Shantel draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early and close relationships shape feelings and expectations. This approach helps when trust, closeness, or abandonment worries make relationships feel difficult. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build concrete skills for managing anxiety, low mood, and daily stressors. For people processing traumatic memories, she may include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR - which focuses on reducing the intensity of traumatic recollections and associated reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and treatment preferences, then recommend a combination of methods. Clients and therapist make decisions collaboratively and adjust methods as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for more in-depth work and skills practice. Phone sessions fit when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to be simpler. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing support between appointments, and help people fit therapy into a busy day.
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