Shannon Shuler
Practical, experienced social worker for life challenges
- Credentials
- LISW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shannon
Shannon Shuler is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) practicing in South Carolina with more than 20 years of experience. She frames therapy as a practical, hopeful process and encourages people to see asking for help as an act of self-care. Shannon emphasizes a collaborative approach where clients' goals guide the work.
Shannon has worked in a range of clinical settings and has experience with many concerns. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with addictions, relationship challenges, infertility stress, and medical or pain-related issues. Her work draws on several therapy approaches to match the needs of each person. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She also incorporates mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotional regulation and coping skills are needed. Shannon has training in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for trauma-related symptoms and integrates motivational interviewing to support change around substance use and other habits.
She blends methods to fit the pace and goals of the person she is seeing, rather than applying one fixed method. People who come to Shannon can expect straightforward, respectful conversations focused on practical steps and real-life challenges. She aims to create a space for clarifying what matters, building skills, and making steady progress toward personally meaningful goals.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Shannon uses client-centered methods that focus on what matters to the person in front of her. This approach prioritizes listening, understanding the client's goals, and adapting sessions to fit those aims. It helps when people want a respectful space to talk and make decisions about next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is another frequent tool she uses. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change patterns that cause distress. It is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and habit-related concerns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, provides concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Shannon may introduce grounding, emotion regulation, and interpersonal skills when those needs arise.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. She works collaboratively with clients to decide which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and preferences, and may blend techniques over time.
The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by reducing travel, enabling quicker check-ins, or allowing sessions during a lunch break. They can also let people choose a setting that helps them focus, or avoid the need to be on camera if that is preferred.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
Next step
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