William Shonts

William Shonts is a licensed counselor in Tennessee with 22 years of professional experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. He approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. He builds sessions around what a client wants to work on. Conversation and goals are shaped to fit each person's situation. He aims to empower people to make changes that matter in day-to-day life. William draws on several practical therapy styles. He uses client-centered methods to create a supportive space. He integrates cognitive behavioral ideas to identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Mindfulness practices and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are used to manage strong emotions and build coping skills. Emotionally focused elements can help when the work centers on relationships or attachment concerns. His background includes long-term work with issues tied to family, abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, codependency, and communication problems. He also has experience with body image, dissociation, autism and Asperger Syndrome, and trauma-related problems such as domestic violence. People who come to him often want straightforward support for everyday struggles. He encourages small, realistic steps and works collaboratively on plans that fit each client's life.

Therapeutic approaches that translate to online work

William commonly uses client-centered methods that focus on listening and responding to what matters most to the client. This approach is about building trust and shaping sessions around the person's priorities, which can work well online for straightforward talk therapy.

He also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT offers concrete tools that a person can practice between sessions, making it easy to use in remote sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills are another part of his toolkit for managing strong emotions and building distress-tolerance techniques that help in daily life.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then adjust methods as the work progresses. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan stays useful and relevant.

The therapist's biography does not list specific session formats. Please confirm current online session options before booking. Many people appreciate online work because it can fit into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and make it easier to maintain regular check-ins. Online sessions also let therapists review notes, share worksheets, and support practice between meetings to help progress toward goals.