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Shannon Gooch

Compassionate, practical therapy for life transitions

LPC Texas

Experience
10 years in practice
Focus areas
Relationship, Self esteem, Depression
Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
Languages
English
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About Shannon

Shannon Gooch is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who focuses on helping people navigate relationship struggles, mood concerns, trauma, and family challenges. She combines practical skills with empathetic insight to support clients working through depression, anxiety, grief, anger, parenting difficulties, and career-related stress.

Background and approach

Her background includes a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in professional counseling, and she draws on a decade of clinical experience to tailor support to each person’s needs.

Her style is collaborative and solution-oriented, using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centered and solution-focused methods to help clients identify unhelpful thought patterns, set achievable goals, and build coping strategies. Shannon brings both professional training and personal perspective as a wife and mother, informing a compassionate, detail-oriented approach.

She has worked across a variety of practice settings, which shaped her focus on complex trauma, behavior management, social skills, and fostering emotional resilience. Shannon aims to empower clients to gain clarity, strengthen self-esteem, and make meaningful changes in their lives.

She frames therapy as a partnership that emphasizes practical strategies and emotional growth, helping people move forward with increased confidence and healthier patterns.

Practical Approaches for Online Healing and Growth

Shannon commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy when working with clients online. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, offering tools that can reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and mood instability. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, actionable steps and goal-setting to create forward movement when clients are feeling stuck.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shannon works with each person to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and she adapts techniques over time so the plan fits the client’s situation. That partnership helps determine whether more cognitive work, problem-solving strategies, or trauma-informed support is most helpful.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit counseling into a busy life and connect from home or work. These formats allow for regular check-ins, flexible scheduling, and the ability to use practical interventions between sessions, supporting steady progress toward clearer thinking, better coping, and improved relationships.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Shannon address?
She works with relationship issues, self-esteem struggles, depression, family and trauma-related concerns, grief, parenting and anger, as well as career challenges and bipolar disorder. Additional focus areas include abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family concerns, body image, codependency, commitment and communication problems, and infidelity.
What is Shannon’s therapeutic approach and style?
Her work is warm and collaborative, emphasizing practical strategies. She primarily uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with client-centered and solution-focused techniques to help clients explore thoughts, set goals, and build coping skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 10 years of professional experience in counseling and has worked in multiple practice settings that informed her competence with trauma, behavior management, and social skills development.
What credentials and location are on record?
She holds the LPC credential and is registered as TX LPC 70940 in Texas.
Which languages are available for sessions and are international clients accepted?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are offered for therapy?
Available formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different communication preferences.
How does pricing and payment work?
Cost varies based on location and therapist availability, and sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working with Shannon?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Relationship issuesSelf esteemDepression

Also works with

Family conflictsTrauma and abuseGriefParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorder

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careBlended family issuesBody imageCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsDependent personalityDivorce and separationFamily problemsFatherhood issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameInfidelityJealousyLife purposeMood disordersPersonality disordersPostpartum depressionPrejudice and discriminationSexual assault and abuseSexualityYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Solution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

10+ years

Licensed

Texas

Languages

English