About Shannon
Shannon Gollner is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that can make daily life feel steadier. Shannon encourages each person to build on their own strengths and to take small, manageable steps toward change.
She respects that deciding to seek help takes courage and that everyone’s story is different. Sessions center on clear goals and real-life strategies.
Background and approach
Shannon listens for what’s working and where things get stuck, then helps create straightforward plans to move forward. Her background includes 19 years of professional experience and active licenses in Alaska and Kentucky. That experience includes helping people through mood struggles, caregiver stress, and relationship challenges such as infidelity, commitment questions, and blended family issues.
Shannon also addresses concerns like obsessive thoughts and compulsions, attachment struggles, guilt and shame, and feelings of isolation. She works with people dealing with disruptive mood patterns and other mood disorders, and supports those navigating multicultural concerns or non-monogamous relationships. In sessions she emphasizes collaboration.
Clients and Shannon set priorities together, try specific tools, and adjust approaches based on what fits each person’s life. The aim is steady progress, not sudden fixes.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Shannon uses evidence-based approaches that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and try alternative actions to reduce distress and improve mood. This is useful for anxiety, depression, and repetitive thought patterns like obsessions or compulsions.Another approach centers on building stronger emotional connections and understanding attachment needs. It helps people sort out relationship patterns, work through jealousy or commitment doubts, and navigate blended family concerns. This method focuses on learning new ways to relate and repair connections.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Shannon works with each person to set goals, try methods, and adjust based on what fits their life and preferences. Clients are involved in deciding which techniques feel most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is good for a face-to-face feel, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, and daily demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Kentucky
- Languages
- English