{"id":21,"date":"2023-04-22T16:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T16:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.16.20.91\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2024-02-22T18:39:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:39:55","slug":"about-counseling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shannonshelton.com\/?page_id=21","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>My Training<\/strong>: As a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Georgia, I assist clients in exploring, evaluating, improving, or changing their career journeys and life paths. I have over 20 years of experience assisting others in this process, both in higher education and corporate sectors. As a psychotherapist, my areas of expertise include anxiety, depression, self esteem, stress management, in the context of a growth mindset. As a career counselor, I specialize in vocational exploration and assessment, career transitions and re-entering the job market, career change management,\u00a0 job search strategies, and navigating ADHD in the workplace. I have a Master of Science in Clinical Counseling from Georgia State University, where I specialized in both mental health therapy and vocational counseling for adults. I am also a certified clinical rehabilitation counselor and a national certified counselor.<br \/><br \/>I have a deep commitment to the affirmation of diverse identities in my practice, and I place a high value on the dignity and worth of all people. I strive\u00a0 to be conscious of the larger forces of bias, discrimination, and exclusion as I work with clients and to be intentional about creating a safe and inclusive atmosphere for growth and healing.<br \/><br \/>My profile is also listed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/therapists\/shannon-shelton-atlanta-ga\/1090360\">Psychology Today\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-232\" src=\"https:\/\/shannonshelton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/S-Shelton-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"Career Counselor  Resume \" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shannonshelton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/S-Shelton-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/shannonshelton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/S-Shelton-768x922.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shannonshelton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/S-Shelton.jpg 786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Training: As a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Georgia, I assist clients in exploring, evaluating, improving, or changing their career journeys and life paths. I have over 20 years of experience assisting others in this process, both in higher education and corporate sectors. As a psychotherapist, my areas of expertise include anxiety, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/shannonshelton.com\/?page_id=21\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannonshelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannonshelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannonshelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannonshelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shannonshelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/shannonshelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/shannonshelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shannonshelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}