Dr. Shannon Hunter
Calm, practical therapy for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shannon
Dr. Shannon Hunter is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and improve daily life. She draws on nearly two decades of experience to help people learn coping skills, manage emotions, and face difficult changes.
Her approach mixes talk therapy with teaching useful techniques that clients can try between sessions. She trained in both education and counseling, earning multiple graduate degrees including a doctorate in Educational Psychology.
Background and approach
She holds the LPC credential and brings work from independent practice, clinics, integrated health settings, and university environments. That variety informs her flexible, down-to-earth style. In sessions she uses clear, evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness.
She also uses dialectical behavior strategies and attachment-informed ideas when they fit the client’s needs. The goal is a personalized plan focused on specific problems like anxiety, sleep, or coping with life changes. Dr.
Hunter emphasizes calm, direct listening and practical guidance. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can share what’s on their mind and try new ways of handling stress. Sessions include skill teaching, reflection, and step-by-step practice.
Her work addresses a broad range of concerns, from depression and grief to parenting stress and compassion fatigue. She helps people identify small changes that add up to better daily functioning and clearer priorities.
Online approaches that teach practical coping skills
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and values and then taking actions that match what matters most. This approach helps when worry or avoidance gets in the way of everyday life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and many daily struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Hunter will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest methods that fit. Together they decide what to try first and adjust as progress is made, so therapy stays practical and goal oriented.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let people work on issues from home or on the go. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and to practice skills in real situations. The variety of options also supports different communication styles, whether someone prefers talking face-to-face or using written messages.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Frequently asked questions
What problems does she help with?
What is her therapy style like?
How much experience does she have?
What are her credentials and where is she based?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Can international clients work with her?
How are sessions delivered?
How is cost handled and how do I begin?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Shannon
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point