Shantel Hams

Shantel Hams is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with eight years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, coping with life changes, and relationship difficulties. Her practice also addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, communication problems, control issues, and questions about life purpose.

Shantel uses an approach that aims to be practical and down-to-earth. She talks through past experiences and how they affect current behavior. Together with clients she identifies strategies to manage symptoms and daily challenges. Sessions focus on small, usable steps rather than big theories.

Her work pays attention to patterns like impulsivity, isolation, guilt and shame, and difficulties after divorce or separation. She also helps people who are dealing with panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, and mood disorders. Conversations will often include looking at relationships and attachment dynamics that shape choices and coping.

Shantel describes therapy as collaborative. She listens to each person's goals and offers straightforward tools to practice between sessions. The intent is to help people feel steadier and more in control of day-to-day life, not to promise particular results.

For practical steps, sessions are arranged through the platform’s matching and scheduling process. Prospective clients complete a short questionnaire to match and then schedule a first session. Sessions are conducted in English and international clients are not accepted.

How evidence-based techniques translate to remote sessions

Shantel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on concrete changes. One approach helps people identify and change thinking and behavior patterns that maintain anxiety or depression. Another approach focuses on processing traumatic events in ways that reduce their hold on daily life and lower reactivity. Each method emphasizes practical skills that can be practiced between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with clients to decide which techniques fit their needs and goals. That means trying strategies, checking how they feel, and adjusting the plan together rather than committing to one method up front.

The original biography does not list which session formats are offered. Confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten commute time, and allow for check-ins without leaving work. Phone sessions may be useful when lower bandwidth is needed or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Online work can help people practice skills in everyday settings and make follow-up meetings simpler without promising a specific format.