Shannon Wise, LPC

Shannon Wise is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Alabama with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping adults and teens manage stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, sleep disturbances, anger, depression, grief, and issues related to self-esteem and bipolar disorder. Her additional areas of focus include communication problems, divorce and separation, emptiness, impulsivity, life purpose, mood and personality disorders, paranoia, seasonal affective disorder, self-love, and challenges common to young adults.

Her background includes roughly five years working as a Therapist Acute with both voluntary and involuntary individuals hospitalized during crises, providing stabilization and support for reintegration into daily routines. She spent about four years as a Mental Health Professional in a correctional setting, contributing to treatment teams for stress management, assessing needs for medication referrals, and coordinating safety interventions or special observation housing for people with chronic symptoms. More recently she has worked over a year in private practice serving individuals, teens, and couples in the community.

Shannon integrates evidence-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to address emotional regulation and conflict resolution, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to teach coping skills for relaxation, grounding, and distress tolerance, and Motivational Interviewing to support change. She also incorporates Reality Therapy techniques for collaborative goal setting and practical interventions that aim to improve quality of life. Shannon emphasizes respectful, sensitive, and compassionate care, tailoring dialogue and treatment plans to each person’s unique needs. She values setting measurable goals, tracking incremental progress, and fostering self-awareness and empowerment to support meaningful personal growth and renewed hope.