About Shannon
Dr. Shannon Hunter is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 19 years of experience helping people find clearer ways to manage stress and anxiety. She blends practical talk therapy with teaching skills that clients can use in daily life.
Her work often addresses mood, relationships, identity, and coping with major life changes. She draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to tailor plans that fit each person.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas and attachment-focused work also shape how she approaches anxiety, grief, and intimacy concerns. Sessions typically combine symptom-focused strategies with learning new ways to respond to difficult thoughts and feelings. Hunter's background spans education and mental health counseling.
She holds a doctorate in educational psychology and master’s degrees in counseling and education, and she has practiced in personal clinics, university settings, integrated health clinics, and state facilities. That variety informs a practical, experienced approach to common problems like sleep, eating, addictions, and caregiver stress. Her style is calm and direct.
She prioritizes active listening and encouragement while helping clients develop coping skills. Parents reading on a phone will find straightforward suggestions and step-by-step tools rather than jargon. When people need flexible access to therapy, she offers multiple remote formats.
Her Texas location and LPC credential guide her practice and the types of services she provides.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values despite uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, with clear exercises you can practice between sessions to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past, then suggest a plan to try together. That makes the process collaborative and adaptable as progress unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets you use visual cues and longer talk sessions, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and messaging works well for ongoing reflections and shorter notes between appointments. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules, caregiving demands, or when travel is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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