About Shantel
Shantel Farrow is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Oklahoma. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, trauma, and changes in life.
Background and approach
Shantel aims to create a calm space where clients can speak honestly and start to build practical ways to feel better. She uses a blend of approaches to match each person's needs.
That can include attachment-based work to look at core patterns in relationships and client-centered listening to make sure the client's concerns guide the work. Cognitive behavioral techniques are offered when someone wants skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Shantel brings eight years of professional experience to her practice and works with a wide range of issues. That includes stress, parenting strains, eating or sleeping difficulties, addiction concerns, ADHD-related struggles, and compassion fatigue among caregivers.
She also addresses more specific topics such as abandonment, adoption and foster care experiences, body image, and chronic illness or pain. In sessions she aims for straightforward conversation and practical steps.
Shantel collaborates with each person to set goals and tries tools in real time so progress can be noticed between sessions. Her focus is on steady change rather than quick fixes.
People from different backgrounds may find her approach helpful when they need guidance through transitions, coping strategies for daily life, or help processing past hurts. Shantel works in English and is listed as an LMFT for Oklahoma practice.
How these approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in relationships and early connections to help people understand why they react the way they do, which is useful for intimacy, abandonment, or attachment-related concerns. Client-centered therapy centers the person's experience and goals, with the therapist listening closely and following what matters most to the client. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises that can be practiced between sessions.Choosing the right approach is something the therapist and client do together. Shantel will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then try approaches that fit the situation. The process is collaborative and can shift over time as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or when being off camera is preferred, live chat and messaging are handy for short check-ins, reflections, or when scheduling a brief session during a work break. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep steady momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English