Shannon Smith

Shannon Smith, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Utah, brings extensive experience with adults. She spent a decade at the Division of Child and Family Services in child protective services, foster care, and family preservation roles. She then served four years with the Department of Corrections as Director of Operations before moving into private practice for 15 years, working with diverse clients. She later joined a private agency that closed shortly after she started. Shannon now works with young adults and adults, individually or with families, and offers telehealth sessions. Her focus includes grief and loss, anxiety, and depression. She also helps with obsessive-compulsive concerns and panic. She works with trauma and posttraumatic stress, as well as bipolar disorder. Clients seek her support for sleep concerns, chronic illness and pain, and physical stress. She addresses family caregiving stress, parent-child or family relationship issues, and abuse. She also works with ADHD, autism, anger, and alcohol use.