Dr. Shannon Holliker

Dr. Shannon Holliker uses a compassionate, straightforward approach to help people facing anxiety, stress, parenting challenges, career concerns, and related issues. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of professional experience and brings a calm, practical style to sessions. She encourages honest conversation and celebrates small steps forward.

Holliker emphasizes open dialogue where difficult or awkward topics can be named without judgment. She helps people identify what matters most to them, set clear goals, and track progress along the way. Short-term problem solving and longer-term reflection are both options depending on each person's needs.

Her background includes a PhD in Public Affairs with a social work focus and two master’s degrees in Social Work and in Child Development and Education. That combination informs her work with parenting concerns, young children, and families coping with medical or developmental stressors. She draws on clinical approaches such as attachment-based and client-centered methods to guide those conversations.

In individual sessions she often uses cognitive behavioral and mindfulness strategies to address anxiety, burnout, trauma effects, and depression symptoms. Motivational interviewing is another method she may use to support changes related to addictions, workplace goals, or career transitions. The intention is to match strategies to each person’s goals and pace.

Dr. Holliker works with people dealing with adoption and foster care questions, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome concerns, and a range of family dynamics. Her practice also covers postpartum mood challenges, obsessive-compulsive concerns, panic, social anxiety, and workplace stress.

How these therapy styles translate to online care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationship patterns and how early bonds shape current reactions. Online sessions can be used to talk through how connections with partners, children, or caregivers influence feelings and behavior. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person’s experience, offering a nonjudgmental space to reflect and make decisions; it helps with stress, parenting questions, and career choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change them, which is useful for anxiety, panic, and workplace stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences. Many people start with a practical focus and add depth later, while others begin with exploration of patterns that affect their daily life.

Please confirm current session options before booking, since specific formats are not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also help people continue care during life transitions or when coordinating sessions around work and family responsibilities.