Shannon Powe-Saunders
Helping families navigate hard moments
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shannon
Shannon Powe-Saunders is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 18 years in the helping profession. She started in mental health and substance use case management, connecting people to community resources. Over time she moved into direct counseling for individuals and families.
She draws on long experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, trauma, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, and substance use concerns. Shannon is warm and relatable in session.
Background and approach
She sees therapy as a practical guide for hard moments along a person’s life journey. Respect and empathy shape how she listens and responds. She centers the person’s experience rather than relying on one fixed method.
Her clinical work blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, psychodynamic thinking, and person-centered ideas, with Motivational Interviewing and mindfulness tools. That mix lets her use concrete strategies when needed and also look at deeper patterns that affect behavior and relationships. She helps people talk through communication problems, attachment or abandonment concerns, blended family issues, and caregiving stress.
Shannon also supports people facing addiction, codependency, intimacy issues, career transitions, compassion fatigue, and body image worries. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking about problems, plus attention to emotions and past influences that maintain unhelpful patterns. If someone is ready to begin change, she offers a steady, encouraging presence and collaborative work on goals and next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Shannon uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT gives practical tools for anxiety, depression, and stress so clients can try small changes and see what helps.She also integrates Client-Centered Therapy, sometimes called person-centered work, which emphasizes listening closely and following the client’s pace. This approach is useful when someone needs acceptance and a calm space to sort through feelings and decisions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Shannon will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, values, and comfort level. She can combine methods over time and adjust based on what’s working or not working for the client.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people talk face to face from home, phone sessions suit those who prefer voice only, and live chat or text-based messaging provides shorter, more frequent check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to keep progress between sessions.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- 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-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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