Shannon Dahse, LPC

Shannon Dahse is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, grief, addiction, or low self-esteem. She also supports those facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, compassion fatigue, and concerns related to LGBT identity.

Shannon keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She helps people find coping strategies that fit their daily lives. Conversations aim to clarify what matters most and build small, manageable steps forward.

Her style blends cognitive behavioral ideas with client-centered listening and motivational interviewing. That means she helps people spot unhelpful thinking, while also listening closely to each person’s goals and values. Sessions include goal setting, skill practice, and tracking progress over time.

She works with issues such as panic attacks, social anxiety, seasonal affective disorder, guilt and shame, and anger. Treatment focuses on concrete tools for reducing symptoms and improving day-to-day functioning. Shannon also addresses problems tied to substance use and recovery by helping people identify motivation and next steps.

Shannon aims to make therapy a place to express feelings, sort through struggles, and notice strengths. She supports clients as they try new coping strategies and adjust plans when needed. The overall aim is steady, realistic change that fits each person’s life.

Using CBT and Client-Centered Care Online

Shannon uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and the behaviors that follow. CBT often includes short exercises, thought records, and behavior experiments that can be practiced between sessions to reduce anxiety, panic, or depressive symptoms.

She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which emphasizes listening and working at the client’s pace. This approach helps people feel heard while they set their own goals and figure out what changes feel right for them. Motivational Interviewing is sometimes used to build motivation for change, especially around addictive behaviors or when someone feels stuck.

Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they choose strategies to try and adjust the plan as progress is tracked.

Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone sessions can be easier on low bandwidth, and messaging or chat can fit short check-ins or writing-based work. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain continuity while trying new coping skills.