About Shannan
Shannan Katz is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on helping people through difficult changes, stress, and times of loneliness. She offers a listening ear and practical guidance so clients can talk through what matters most. Shannan encourages people to be themselves in sessions and to share what is on their minds and in their hearts.
Shannan uses a heart-centered style that is warm and nonjudgmental. She also provides direct, structured feedback when that fits a person's needs.
Background and approach
Early conversations often focus on clear goals and small steps to make daily life feel more manageable. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and stress related to work or life transitions. She also supports discussions about sexuality and welcomes clients from the LGBTQIA community.
Additional topics she addresses include body image, parenting concerns, blended family issues, and attachment-related struggles. Shannan holds a Master of Arts and lists credentials as LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) and OH LPCC (Ohio Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor). She brings 11 years of clinical experience to her work and typically begins with a video session followed by phone sessions for many follow-ups.
Sessions combine practical techniques and compassionate listening. That can include skill-building from cognitive and behavioral methods, focused problem-solving to move forward, and strategies to manage overwhelming feelings. The aim is steady, doable progress toward the changes a person wants.
Approaches in online sessions and what they do
Shannan uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral strategies in online sessions. Client-centered therapy means the conversation is led by the client’s concerns and feelings, while the therapist reflects and helps people clarify what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to change how someone feels.Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Shannan will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From that discussion she and the client pick techniques together and adjust them as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for an initial meeting and when visual cues help the work. Phone sessions allow a quieter, screen-free check-in and can fit into a busy day. Live chat and text messaging make short check-ins and ongoing support easier between longer sessions. These options give flexibility to match sessions to a person’s schedule and needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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