Shannon Kaufman
Compassionate counselor for life transitions
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shannon
Shannon Kaufman is an Ohio-licensed professional counselor (LPCC) with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, and address trauma and abuse. She aims to make starting therapy feel manageable for someone who may be nervous or unsure about the process.
Shannon creates a nonjudgmental space where clients can talk honestly about their thoughts and feelings. She listens first and works with each person to set clear, practical goals.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a pace that fits the individual and focus on real-life changes rather than theory. Her approach blends client-centered methods with skills-based tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Those tools can help with mood shifts, overwhelming emotions, and patterns that keep coming back.
Motivational interviewing is used when people need help finding motivation for change. Shannon also brings trauma-focused techniques when past harm affects daily life. That work is intended to reduce the hold of painful memories and improve current functioning.
She adjusts methods to match where someone is in their recovery or growth. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Shannon practices in Ohio and holds the license number OH LPCC E.2102278.
The process starts by filling a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on availability.
How Shannon’s Approaches Translate Online
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s priorities first. In online sessions this means Shannon listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps you set goals that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small experiments. It is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and everyday patterns that cause distress.Shannon treats the choice of approach as a joint decision. Early sessions are used to learn what’s most troubling and what works for the individual. She will suggest methods, try them, and adjust based on how the client responds so treatment fits personal needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when that feels important. Phone sessions can be used when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between meetings or use shorter, focused interactions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still using CBT, DBT-informed skills, and trauma-focused techniques when appropriate.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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