Shannon Williams (she/her)

Therapy gives teens a safe space to talk through their identity, life transition, moods, and develop healthy coping mechanisms for their difficult emotions. Teens and adolescents can learn to manage stress, anger, depression, ADHD, and anxiety. Teens can learn social skills to help them manage conflict with peers. school stress, lack of motivation, social anxiety, college application pressure, friendship issues, family conflict, impulsivity, anger management, and peer pressure.

Family Therapy can help family members feel seen, heard, and heal together. I specialize in high conflict families and family reunification and use two different models to teach your family emotional regulation, positive communication styles, and healthy expression of emotion to manage conflict, feel more connected, and feel confident in problem solving together. I teach parenting classes and apply those skills in supporting parents to increase knowledge and confidence in supporting their kids.

Surviving traumatic events can often come with symptoms of stress, feeling like we are waiting for the next “bad thing” to happen, looking over your shoulder, and having difficulty relaxing and feeling safe. Individual therapy for trauma can help to process these events and learn skills to learn to feel safe and secure, problem solving, how to adjust to new environments, manage grief and loss, and learn how to control anxious thoughts and discover new energy for motivation.

Anxious thoughts can cause severe distress in our lives.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety helps identify how the anxiety affects our body somatically and bring awareness to honoring and sitting with the feelings, and then identifying the anxious thought. Challenging our maladaptive cognition empowers us to recreate the stories we are telling ourselves and gives us a choice to take control over our mind, making our emotions easier to handle, and our body sensations and behaviors healthier

Families OverComing Under Stress (FOCUS) is a structured resiliency model for families facing adversity and traumatic stress. Families talk about their feelings, clarify misunderstandings and learn to respectfully disagree, improve upon the strengths of the family and feel closer to one another. Functional Family Therapy (FFT) focuses on building upon the strengths your family already has and developing acceptance and respect for each other.

TFCBT and other trauma therapy models can be used to support folks to process difficult feelings, past trauma, and empower themselves to recover, heal, and thrive in their lives.