Dr. Shannon Holliker, LCSW

Dr. Shannon Holliker is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on relationship concerns and parenting stress. She offers steady, empathetic support and practical ways to handle anxiety, burnout, and life transitions. Her style centers on open conversation and building small, trackable goals people can use right away.

She prefers honest dialogue where a person can say difficult things without judgment. She helps parents facing medical or developmental concerns with young children and supports families affected by trauma or hospital stays. She also works with people facing fertility stress, workplace strain, and compassion fatigue.

Dr. Holliker holds a PhD in Public Affairs with a social work focus, a Master of Social Work, and a second master’s in Child Development and Education. That background informs her work with parents and early childhood issues and influences how she looks at family patterns and attachment.

Therapy sessions include identifying clear goals and tracking progress together. She uses approaches that emphasize relationships, strengths, and skill-building. Sessions can focus on immediate problem-solving or deeper patterns, depending on what a person needs.

She draws on methods such as attachment-informed work, cognitive behavioral ideas, client-centered listening, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Over 12 years of practice in Florida have shaped her focus on stress, anxiety, trauma, addictions, ADHD, and relationship and family dynamics. Her work is delivered in English.

How relationship and skills-based approaches translate online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships. Online sessions use conversation and reflection to identify patterns in trust, closeness, and communication and build different ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect; in sessions clients learn practical skills and exercises to reduce anxiety, manage panic, and change unhelpful routines. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes attentive listening and collaboration, giving people space to name struggles and choose goals that feel right to them.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. Together they will decide which methods to focus on and adjust strategies as progress is made.

Confirm current session options before booking to see which online formats are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by reducing commute time and allowing shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let someone join sessions from a quieter place, schedule around medical or family demands, and practice skills between meetings to boost everyday progress.