About Shannon
Shannon Smith is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) based in Ohio who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and related challenges. She brings a calm, listening-first style and uses practical tools so clients can cope better day to day. Shannon aims to help people feel steadier in mind and body while they work toward clearer goals.
She has ten years of experience in behavioral health and also serves as a social work officer in the Army National Guard.
Background and approach
That combination of civilian and service roles has shaped the way she pays attention to detail and stays steady under pressure. Her background includes a Master of Science in Social Administration from Case Western Reserve University. Shannon draws on somatic ideas alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-focused work.
She blends those with client-centered and cognitive approaches to match each person’s needs. In sessions she helps people practice grounding skills, build healthy coping habits, and reduce overwhelming feelings. Her style is warm and validating.
People can expect a focus on strengths, steady feedback, and step-by-step techniques rather than long lectures. Faith and spiritual values are included when clients request them as part of care. Shannon works with a wide range of topics including grief, relationship stress, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and caregiver strain.
She helps individuals facing impulsivity, dissociation, body image concerns, and other complex stressors find practical ways forward.
How Shannon's approaches translate to online therapy
Shannon uses Somatic-informed work to help people notice how the body holds stress and to teach simple body-based grounding techniques. That approach can help with anxiety, trauma responses, and overwhelming emotions by adding bodily awareness to talk-based work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values; it can help people stay connected to what matters during hard times. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people practice new, more supported ways of relating in their lives.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Shannon collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals, comfort, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time so clients feel involved in shaping their care rather than following a fixed plan.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work through exercises and grounding practices face to face. Phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide other ways to connect when schedules, travel, or energy levels make video difficult. These options make it easier to continue steady work on coping skills and emotional regulation without rearranging a whole day.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English