Shannon Pena
Practical support for stressed parents and caregivers
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shannon
Shannon Pena helps parents and caregivers who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or parenting challenges. She writes and talks in a straightforward way to make sessions feel manageable. Shannon uses plain language to help people sort priorities, calm strong emotions, and find steps that fit their family life.
Shannon is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - LCMHC practicing in North Carolina with eight years of experience. She has spent much of her career supporting young adults and people with developmental differences, including autism spectrum presentations and ADHD.
Background and approach
She has also worked with a range of concerns such as career questions, coping with life changes, anger, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Her approach is client-centered, which means she starts by listening and shaping work around each person. She combines practical problem solving with support for emotions and relationships.
Goals are set together and steps toward them are checked in each session. Sessions may sometimes include brief tasks to try between meetings. Shannon encourages straightforward, honest conversation in sessions so progress is clear.
She adapts methods to match what actually helps each family or caregiver rather than following a single formula. People who meet with her can expect a calm, down-to-earth process focused on usable skills and steady progress. The work aims to reduce overwhelm and build routines that fit a busy family life.
Client-centered care online for parents and caregivers
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and responding to each person as an individual. In practice this means sessions begin with the therapist asking about what matters most to the client and then shaping goals and steps that fit family life. This approach can help with stress, parenting struggles, anxiety, and changes at work or home.Shannon pairs that listening stance with practical problem solving. Together the client and therapist decide which strategies to try and when to adjust the plan. That collaborative process helps make sure the approach matches the client's needs, goals, and personal preferences rather than following a fixed method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around school runs, work, or childcare and let parents choose the way they communicate best. The variety of formats supports ongoing contact and flexible follow-up between meetings when needed.
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
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Intellectual disability
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Shannon
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- Stop at any point