Shannon Brandes
Compassionate counselor blending faith and practical tools
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, New York, Kansas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shannon
Shannon Brandes is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 11 years of experience. She combines professional experience with personal life experience to support adults who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, parenting challenges, and other concerns. Shannon describes herself as open about her own life and faith when that is helpful to a client.
She centers her work on practical steps that clients can use between sessions. Shannon uses a multi-dimensional approach called Deconstructing Anxiety alongside well-known methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Background and approach
Sessions may include goal setting, skills practice, and reflection on values and behavior. Shannon integrates faith-based perspectives and holistic ideas for clients who request that focus. She also adapts a client-centered stance when people prefer a more exploratory or empathic conversation.
Her aim is to match the approach to each person’s needs and preferences. Clients can expect straightforward discussion about patterns, triggers, and practical coping strategies. Shannon emphasizes doing work both in session and between sessions for change to happen.
She supports people dealing with family problems, communication issues, body image concerns, and process addictions among other focus areas. Shannon practices in Kansas and works with adults 18 and older. Sessions are conducted in English.
People who are interested begin by following the site’s sign-up process and completing a brief matching questionnaire to schedule time with her.
How these approaches shape online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small moves toward those values. It helps with anxiety, depression, and life changes by teaching acceptance and committed action. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns and helps people understand trust, closeness, and emotional responses in present relationships. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person’s experience, using empathy and unconditional positive regard to help someone feel heard and discover their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shannon will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they decide which methods to emphasize. That collaborative planning can include blending techniques so sessions match what an individual needs.
The therapist’s profile does not specify which online formats are offered, so confirm current session options before booking. Many clients find online sessions helpful because they can fit therapy into busy schedules, make shorter check-ins between commitments, and avoid travel time. Online work also makes it easier to practice skills from daily life and to bring real situations into conversation during a session.
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
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New York, Kansas
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Shannon
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