About Shannan
Shannan Katz is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in Ohio who helps people navigate stressful life changes. She offers a calm, listening presence and supports clients who are coping with anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addiction, and a range of other struggles. Shannan welcomes conversations about sexuality and serves clients from the LGBTQIA community.
She keeps sessions straightforward and person-centered. That means the conversation centers on the client's goals, feelings, and values.
Background and approach
She can be heart-centered and gentle, or more direct and structured when feedback and concrete steps are wanted. Shannan draws on practical methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused strategies to help people change unhelpful patterns and reach goals. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and motivational interviewing for ambivalence about change.
Her practice includes support for eating and sleeping concerns, body image, intimacy and kink-related topics, parenting stress, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. She notes that her approach is not suited for crisis work or for people actively struggling with self-harm or suicidal behavior. Most initial meetings are done by video, with follow-up sessions commonly by phone.
Shannan has 11 years of experience and holds an MA LMHC and an Ohio LPCC credential.
How her approach and online options work together
Shannan commonly blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral methods to help people address unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, reflecting feelings, and following each person's priorities to create a safe space for honest conversation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involves identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that maintain anxiety, depression, or problematic habits and is useful for stress, phobias, and sleep or eating concerns.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy tools when intense emotions need managing, offering skills for distress tolerance and emotion regulation. Choosing the right approach is collaborative; the therapist and client talk about what feels most helpful and adjust methods as goals evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation for teaching skills and reading nonverbal cues, phone sessions are good for quick check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, homework prompts, or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or other life demands while still focusing on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Massachusetts, California
- Languages
- English
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