Shontrice Hansen, LPC

Shontrice Hansen is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 14 years of clinical experience. She uses clear, practical strategies to help people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and trauma. Her approach is direct and caring, aimed at helping parents and individuals find better day-to-day ways to cope.

She combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with client-centered listening to shape goals that fit each person. Sessions focus on small, doable steps such as changing unhelpful thoughts, building routines for sleep and eating, and practicing calmer responses to anger or panic. She also draws on narrative and solution-focused methods when stories and short-term goals fit better.

Shontrice has worked with many concerns related to family life, adoption and foster care, blended family issues, and caregiving stress. She has experience addressing trauma and sexual assault, self-harm, disruptive mood symptoms, and ADHD-related impulsivity. She helps people explore life purpose, intimacy questions, and identity issues including LGBT concerns.

She offers a range of session styles to match different needs - whether a focused short-term plan or a longer process of healing after significant loss. Her Tennessee licensure is AR LPC and TN LPC and she works in English. The practical aim is steady progress: clearer thinking, fewer crisis moments, and better daily routines.

To begin, she asks people to pick goals, try small behavioral experiments between sessions, and adjust the plan as needed. The tone in sessions is warm, straightforward, and goal-oriented so people can return to the rest of their lives with more confidence.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Shontrice commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and address sleep or eating patterns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes active listening and working at the client’s pace to build trust and clarity about goals.

She also uses Narrative Therapy when it helps people reframe the stories they tell about themselves, which can be helpful after trauma or major life changes. Together she and the client decide which approach or mix of approaches fits best. That decision is collaborative and can shift as goals change or progress is made.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions with visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins, live chat is helpful for brief goal-setting or processing, and messaging lets clients share updates and get support between sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule around family, work, and caregiving obligations while still following a clear therapy plan.