Our Mission

Shannon’s Place Family Counseling is dedicated to helping those we work with BELIEVE that they matter, they have the ability to be successful and change is possible.

Sometimes life can be challenging and reaching out for help can be difficult.  Whether you are a child or an adult life can be overwhelming, which can result in losing focus on what is in your best interest.

The spirit of Shannon’s Place Family Counseling centers around the fact that play is the natural language of childhood; it is how a child communicates and it helps children and adolescents learn about themselves and their relationships with others. The use of play therapy in conjunction with animal assisted play therapy helps to create a therapeutic environment that is emotionally safe. It enhances problem solving and self-expression, while encouraging communication and positive social skills.

Even with adults the mind and body naturally relax when humor and playful interventions are incorporated into the therapy process. Adults are less resistant to open up and their stress levels decrease which helps to create a therapeutic environment where they feel safe, supported and heard. This creation of an emotionally safe and trusting therapeutic environment allows clients to look at things from a new perspective, to take risks while at the same time challenging themselves to create change and ultimately to achieve their goals.