About Shannon
Shannon LaTray offers a client-centered approach that keeps the person's goals at the center of therapy. She is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who draws on practical methods to help with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship concerns. Shannon speaks plainly and focuses on what will help someone feel better in daily life.
Clients can expect a calm, collaborative space to talk through difficult feelings. Sessions focus on real problems like sleeping or eating struggles, parenting strain, work stress, or the pain that follows loss and trauma.
Background and approach
Shannon helps people identify patterns and try small changes that add up over time. Her style blends goal-focused techniques with emotionally-focused work. That mix supports both short-term problem solving and deeper shifts in how someone connects with themselves and others.
Motivational interviewing is used when people want help with change and recovery from substance issues. With nine years of experience, Shannon has worked with a broad range of concerns from ADHD and bipolar symptoms to compassion fatigue and life transitions. She also addresses attachment wounds, codependency, communication problems, and issues around forgiveness and guilt.
Shannon practices in New Jersey and conducts sessions in English. She offers several online session formats so people can find what fits their schedule and needs. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and then a session is scheduled according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered therapy invites the therapist to follow the person's lead, listen closely, and shape sessions around what matters most. This approach helps people feel heard and decide the goals they want to work on. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues, and many everyday problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made so the plan fits the person's life and needs.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are well suited for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can offer a quick check-in, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum during life transitions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York
- Languages
- English