Shannon Smith
Practical support for stress and mood concerns
- Credentials
- LISW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shannon
Shannon Smith is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) based in Ohio. She focuses on practical tools for people dealing with stress, anxiety, mood symptoms, grief, eating and sleeping concerns, attention differences, and life changes. Shannon keeps language simple and meetings direct so parents can quickly tell if the approach fits their needs.
She brings ten years of experience in behavioral health. Shannon favors a person-centered way of working that centers the client’s goals and values.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skills practice - like grounding and emotion management - and clear steps to try between meetings. Shannon uses a mix of evidence-informed methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, and attachment-informed ideas. She aims to match techniques to the problem at hand rather than sticking to one method for everything.
Her approach includes gentle feedback and attention to detail. Shannon listens for patterns that keep problems going and helps people build small, manageable changes. She also integrates personal values when clients want that included in care.
Shannon supports people who are coping with complicated emotions, relationship tension, caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, first responder stress, and issues tied to trauma or loss. She encourages practical steps that fit daily life so progress can show up between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms. It works well for worry, mood problems, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps rebuild safety in relationships and self-view.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Shannon will discuss goals, preferences, and what seems to help most. Together the therapist and client try methods, adjust them, and keep what works while changing what does not.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options let people fit sessions into busy family schedules and continue work from home or while traveling. The varied formats also make it easier to practice skills between meetings and to check in quickly when challenges arise.
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.
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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
Next step
Talk to Shannon
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point