Shannon LaTray, LMHC

Shannon LaTray is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New Jersey. She focuses on relationship concerns alongside anxiety, depression, addiction, and life changes. Shannon brings nine years of clinical experience to help people make practical shifts in how they cope and connect.

She centers sessions on collaboration and respect, listening first to understand what matters most to each person. Shannon helps clients spot patterns that keep them stuck and then tries simple, doable steps to change those patterns. Work often includes improving communication, managing intense emotions, and addressing grief or trauma responses.

Her approach draws from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused methods, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies. Those tools are used to build self-understanding, strengthen coping skills, and reduce symptoms like panic, low mood, or addictive behaviors. Sessions tend to be practical and goal-oriented, with space for emotion and reflection.

Shannon often supports people dealing with parenting strain, blended family challenges, attachment and abandonment wounds, codependency, and forgiveness work. She also addresses sleep and eating concerns, anger, impulsivity, and career stress. Many clients seek help with intimacy-related issues and navigating separation or divorce.

She works in English and holds New York and Massachusetts LMHC credentials in addition to her New Jersey practice base. To begin, readers should use the continue button on this profile and complete the short matching questionnaire to schedule according to her availability.

How Shannon’s approaches guide online therapy choices

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s perspective. It helps build trust and supports people as they name what matters and decide on goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior. It breaks problems into small, practical steps that reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) centers on feelings and attachment needs and can be useful for addressing intimacy-related issues and deep emotional wounds.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shannon will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their goals, current struggles, and comfort with different techniques. That collaborative process can include trying an approach for a few sessions and adjusting as needed.

The biography does not specify which online session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online work can make attending therapy easier by fitting sessions into a weekday break, avoiding travel time, or allowing a shorter check-in when schedules are tight. Online sessions can also allow steady, frequent contact during periods of big life change. Licensed professionals tailor online methods to match the approaches above and the practical needs of the person seeking help.