About Shannon
Shannon Oberndorf helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and grief. She focuses on practical ways to cope with depression, sleep problems, parenting strain, addiction concerns, and the fallout from trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Shannon uses clear, direct talk to help people feel heard and to build skills they can use at home. With 20 years of experience, Shannon draws on several psychological approaches to match each person's needs.
She listens first and then offers tools from attachment work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practice, and psychodynamic ideas. Sessions look different depending on the issue - sometimes they are skills-focused, sometimes they are space to process painful memories.
Shannon is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT - practicing in Colorado. Her work includes helping people with family and blended-family issues, caregiver stress, codependency, and communication problems.
She also addresses first responder concerns, compassion fatigue, and challenges tied to life purpose and self-worth. Her style is warm and straightforward.
She encourages honest conversation and helps clients set small, achievable goals. People who struggle with attachment, social anxiety, guilt, or shame often find the approach supportive and practical.
Therapy can include exploring family of origin dynamics, building better boundaries, and learning tools to reduce worry. Shannon helps people identify patterns, try new ways of relating, and practice skills between sessions.
The aim is steady, useful change rather than quick fixes.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions using this approach help people notice how they connect, build stronger bonds, and reduce reactive responses in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In online CBT sessions clients learn practical skills to manage anxiety, change negative thinking, and improve sleep and mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and use a mix of methods that fit your situation. This is collaborative - you and the therapist check in on what is helping and adjust the plan when needed.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make short check-ins and written reflections easy to fit into a busy week. These options make it simpler to keep up with sessions, practice skills between meetings, and stay connected when life is unpredictable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English