About Shannon
Shannon Hartman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions. Her style is respectful and steady, and she aims to make the first steps feel manageable for worried parents and busy adults.
Shannon sees each person as the expert on their own life. She helps clients notice strengths they already have and use those strengths to move forward.
Background and approach
Conversations are collaborative and goal-focused, with room for slowing down when feelings are intense. Her work draws on several approaches that fit different needs. Shannon uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.
She also employs attachment-based ideas to look at relational patterns and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live around difficult emotions. With 15 years of professional experience, Shannon brings steady clinical judgment and practical problem solving to sessions.
She has worked with a wide range of concerns including compassion fatigue, addictions, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem challenges. Shannon holds a California LCSW 24736 and conducts sessions in English. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their schedule and communication style.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect someone to appropriate support and schedule sessions.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Shannon often draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. ACT helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and it supports living toward personal values even when emotions are hard. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, low mood, and recurring patterns.Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. Shannon will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and try methods that fit the person’s situation. Together they adjust the focus over time so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers not to be on camera. Chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins or ongoing written support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English