Jacqueline Shannon

Jacqueline Shannon is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counsellor III, licensed in Oregon (OR LMFT T1773) and California (CA LMFT 116706). She has 10 years of clinical experience and is based in Oregon.

She has worked in community mental health settings and supported the start-up of a grassroots organization, providing care for adults and teens experiencing mood, anxiety, and addictive disorders.

Over the past 5 years she has taken on leadership roles guiding and training clinicians who are developing clinical skills, and she has recently returned to direct practice to focus on therapy for individuals, couples, and families seeking change.

Her work draws on humanistic and existential perspectives and incorporates a range of experiential modalities. Jacqueline creates a safe therapeutic environment where clients can face life’s discomforts while building connection through trust, empathy, straightforward inquiry, and down-to-earth humor.

She blends talk therapy with present-moment awareness to encourage intuitive exploration. Through collaborative work she supports greater access to insight, motivation, and empowerment, helping clients shift how they see and experience the world.

Jacqueline specializes in transitional-age youth, adults, families, and couples. She welcomes people of all races, religions, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, abilities, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds without judgment. She is a female therapist who is gay, non-religious, and identifies as liberal.