- Addiction support
- Mood and stress
- Values focused
About Shannon
Shannon Gaiser is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 17 years of experience helping people facing addiction, mood challenges, and life changes. She draws on her own recovery journey to offer practical, nonjudgmental support. Her approach aims to meet people where they are and create a plan that fits each person's life.
Shannon focuses on issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, and self-esteem. She also helps with relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, career stress, and complex topics like codependency, forgiveness, and control issues. Her background includes work in inpatient and outpatient addiction treatment and private practice supporting medication-assisted care.
Her style is down-to-earth and collaborative. Sessions emphasize clear goals, skill building, and real-world steps clients can try between meetings. She uses methods that help people notice thoughts and habits, try new behaviors, and reconnect with personal values.
Shannon incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral ideas, client-centered therapy, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. These approaches support choices around recovery, coping with mood shifts, and responding to stress more effectively.
She offers help for people navigating substance use concerns alongside other life challenges. Sessions are meant to be practical and goal-focused, with an emphasis on what works for each individual. Prospective clients are encouraged to confirm current session options before booking.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when thoughts or cravings feel strong. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and addiction. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience, using listening and empathy to build motivation and confidence to change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shannon will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She tailors strategies over time, mixing skills, mindfulness, and motivational conversations to match what the client needs in that moment.
Confirm the session formats offered before booking, as current options should be checked in advance. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Many people find it simpler to attend regularly and to practice new skills between meetings when sessions work around everyday life.
Areas of focus
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, grief, relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, career stress, and self-esteem issues.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is practical and collaborative. Sessions focus on goals, skills to try between meetings, and approaches that match each person's needs.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 17 years of experience, including nine years in inpatient and outpatient addiction treatment and eight years in private practice supporting medication-assisted care.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is listed as an LPC, Licensed Professional Counselor, practicing in Pennsylvania.
Which languages or international clients are supported?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Confirm current session options before booking to learn which formats are offered at this time.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.