Shannan OConnor
Support for parents and family life
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shannan
Shannan OConnor is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside relationship and personal stress. She works with people dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, caregiver stress, and intimacy or relationship tensions. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping parents and caregivers feel steadier and clearer about next steps.
She begins by listening to each person’s story and identifying practical ways to reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on small, doable changes that fit family life and daily routines. Shannan highlights strengths clients already have and uses them to build momentum toward better functioning. With five years of professional experience as an LMFT, she draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address panic attacks, social anxiety, and trauma reactions.
She also attends to issues like guilt, shame, isolation, and multicultural concerns that often affect family dynamics. This approach keeps work focused and applicable to real situations. Shannan emphasizes collaboration and clear goals so therapy feels relevant and time well spent.
She supports people through career stress, compassion fatigue, and life transitions while helping them name priorities at home. Her aim is practical support that helps families move forward. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients.
Shannan holds California license number CA LMFT 137294 and structures care to match each person’s needs and daily life.
Evidence-Based Approaches for Families and Online Care
Shannan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that translate well to online work. One common approach focuses on skill-building for anxiety and stress management, teaching grounding, breathing, and step-by-step coping strategies that help during overwhelming moments. These tools can reduce panic and make daily routines feel more manageable.Another approach centers on improving relationships and family communication by identifying patterns that cause conflict and then practicing clearer, calmer ways to respond. This method helps with intimacy-related issues, caregiver stress, and parenting challenges by making interactions more predictable and less reactive.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Shannan works together with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, preferences, and family life. She will check in and adjust methods as needed so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to maintain continuity when life gets hectic. The variety of formats allows people to pick what feels most manageable for their routines and comfort.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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