Jacqueline Shannon, LMFT
Compassionate, practical therapy for life’s transitions
About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Shannon is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who focuses on practical, down-to-earth therapy. She draws on ten years of clinical experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship worries, addiction concerns, and major life changes.
Background and approach
She speaks plainly and uses humor when appropriate to make sessions feel less heavy. Jacqueline blends humanistic and existential ideas with structured tools.
That means she listens closely, asks direct questions, and offers hands-on ways to test new behaviors between sessions. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas alongside cognitive techniques to help people notice what matters and take steps toward it.
Her background includes years in community mental health and leadership roles training other clinicians. That experience shaped a practical focus on coping skills, emotional regulation, and clearer communication.
She also brings work with grief, caregiver stress, codependency, and family-of-origin issues. Jacqueline pays attention to attachment and intimacy patterns that affect relationships.
She helps people sort out commitment worries, communication problems, and intimacy-related concerns. For those dealing with substance use, she combines relapse prevention strategies with emotional work.
Sessions are offered in English and provided to people living in Oregon. She uses a collaborative approach - clients set goals and she suggests tools to reach them.
Her practice emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes, and she supports people through midlife shifts, career crossroads, and parenting strain.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and take steps toward what matters. It’s useful for anxiety, stress, life changes, and finding direction when values feel unclear. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how those patterns affect current connections and intimacy concerns.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist discusses goals and preferences and helps decide which methods to try first. Over time, they adjust techniques based on what helps the person make steady changes.
Online sessions can fit into busy lives through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a hands-free check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other obligations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English