Shannon Gooch, LPC

Shannon Gooch is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor who brings a practical, compassionate approach to therapy. With a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Professional Counseling, she has spent a decade working with adults, families, adolescents, and at-risk youth to navigate crisis, heal from pain, and build healthier lives.

Her clinical work blends empathy with structured techniques, focusing on areas such as complex trauma, depression, anxiety, behavior management, and social skills development. She also supports people facing relationship struggles, self-esteem challenges, grief, parenting concerns, anger, career transitions, and mood disorders. In addition, she addresses issues related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, body image, codependency, infidelity, and other family problems.

As a wife and mother, Shannon offers a grounded and relatable perspective, aiming to provide the same level of care and respect she would want for her own family. Her style is warm and collaborative, emphasizing practical strategies drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused techniques to help clients identify root concerns, reframe unhelpful thoughts, and develop effective coping skills.

Shannon’s goal is to empower clients to strengthen resilience, clarify purpose, and make meaningful change. She partners with each person to create realistic steps toward greater confidence and emotional balance.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support with Shannon Gooch

Shannon uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client's perspective guides the work. This approach focuses on listening, empathy, and collaboration to help people explore values, choices, and personal strengths and is often helpful for relationship concerns, self-esteem, and life transitions.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients identify unhelpful thought patterns and develop practical skills for managing mood, anxiety, and behavior. CBT offers structured techniques for reframing thoughts and practicing coping strategies that can reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.

Solution-Focused Therapy is another tool in her practice, emphasizing immediate, achievable goals and small steps that lead to noticeable change. This method is useful for clients who want brief, goal-oriented work focused on measurable progress.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shannon and each client work together to determine which methods align with the client’s needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexible access to her work through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and reach licensed professionals when in-person visits are not convenient.