Shannon Madden, LPC

Shannon Madden is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arizona with 26 years in the mental health field. She began her career as a crisis counselor and has worked across emergency settings and military behavioral health. Shannon brings a practical, down-to-earth approach to counseling and aims to make first sessions feel calm and approachable.

She relies on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice how thoughts influence feelings and actions. Shannon uses simple worksheets to identify unhelpful thinking and pairs that work with plain explanations of brain processes. She often opens sessions with light humor to ease tension and help people relax into the work.

Over her career she has worked with crisis response teams, emergency departments, and military psychological health programs. That background informs her focus on stress, anxiety, trauma and related concerns like grief, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue. She also supports issues such as sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and major life changes.

Shannon blends CBT with client-centered listening and techniques drawn from mindfulness, emotionally-focused approaches, and motivational interviewing to meet each person where they are. She explains tools clearly and practices them together with clients so skills feel doable between sessions.

Her style is straightforward and collaborative. Shannon helps people set small goals, try practical exercises, and check progress over time. To get started she asks people to complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule according to her availability.

How Shannon’s approaches translate to online care

Shannon commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in her work. CBT focuses on identifying thought patterns that lead to difficult emotions and on practicing small, structured exercises to change those patterns. Client-centered work emphasizes listening closely to each person's experience and shaping the work around their needs and pace.

She also draws on elements of Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people notice and name emotions, and on Mindfulness techniques to build attention to present-moment experience. These methods aim to help with anxiety, stress, grief, sleep problems, and coping with chronic illness or caregiving demands.

Picking the right approach is part of the therapy process. Shannon works together with each person to decide which methods feel most useful for their goals and daily life. That choice may change over time as progress is made and needs shift.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when helpful. Therapists can use worksheets, homework, and brief exercises in sessions to practice skills between meetings and support ongoing coping and recovery.