About Shannon
Shannon Mott is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, mood shifts, relationship strain, and the fallout from trauma. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps parents and adults can use right away. Shannon offers a calm presence and straightforward guidance for people feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
She draws on nine years of clinical experience in Louisiana and uses approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy.
Background and approach
Sessions center on the person in front of her and what they need most in day-to-day life. That can mean building routines for better sleep, addressing patterns that harm relationships, or learning new ways to cope with grief and substance concerns. Shannon is comfortable working with issues that come up around parenting, identity, and major life changes.
She also focuses on less common concerns such as adoption and foster care, attachment issues, and alternative sexual cultures. Her practice includes support for people managing chronic illness, caregiving stress, and complex co-occurring challenges. Her style is collaborative and practical.
Shannon helps people set small goals, notice what works, and change what does not. She uses talk therapy and structured exercises so progress is clear and usable between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients.
Therapy is provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and formats include video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Shannon commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice hard thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can ease anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape present-day connection and trust. This approach can help people understand recurring patterns in relationships and develop safer ways of relating. Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process; the therapist works together with each person to pick approaches that match their goals and comfort level.
Online sessions give practical options for busy lives. Video calls let people speak face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or easier scheduling during a workday. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and accessible while keeping the focus on progress and everyday tools.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English