Shannon Hartman

Shannon Hartman is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in California with 15 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and big life changes. Her style is direct and compassionate, and she encourages clients to build on the strengths they already have.

Shannon frames therapy as a collaborative process. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and works alongside them to set realistic goals. Conversations focus on practical steps, clearer thinking, and small behavior changes that make daily life more manageable.

Her background includes long experience supporting people through loss, caregiver strain, and end-of-life concerns. She also addresses issues such as attachment and relationship problems, trauma and abuse, addiction, and compassion fatigue. Shannon draws on several evidence-informed approaches and tailors them to each person’s needs.

Sessions blend skills work with space to examine meaning and values. For someone coping with grief or a major transition, Shannon helps identify manageable actions and build routines that reduce overwhelm. For anxiety or depression, she uses concrete strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors while validating difficult feelings.

Shannon aims to create a steady, practical path forward. She invites people to take the next step when they feel ready and supports them through the process of change one session at a time.

How Shannon’s approaches fit into online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages people to clarify what matters to them and to take small, meaningful actions toward those values while accepting difficult feelings. It can be helpful for grief, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practical exercises and skill-building, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Shannon will discuss different methods and help the client choose what matches their goals and preferences. The selection is collaborative and may shift as progress is made.

Confirm the therapist’s current session formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow for check-ins that match a person's schedule. It can also make it simpler to continue care during major life changes or when managing caregiving responsibilities. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT and CBT exercises for remote conversations, using worksheets, behavioral experiments, and values-focused tasks between sessions to keep progress moving.