Therapist Chat - Relationship Gardening with Shannon

Shannon can be booked for Distance Sessions! Read on...

Telehealth Sessions for the Zombie Apocalypse and beyond...

by online video or text chat means you can be anywhere in the world you have an internet connection, and get burning questions answered and the support you need from Shannon, an advanced trained marriage specialist.
During the zombie apocalypse, book your video chat for stress reducing coversation and tools.
Shannon can also do EFT tap-a-longs tailored to your unique situation.
If you want to be a Telehealth Client then contact Shannon (see top of page for "Connect with Shannon,")
and ask about finding out if you qualify.
In person sessions when not in a pandemic, are for any folks who can get to Portland.

Read more about Shannon, her marriage, & her motivation (Personal Stuff), or
more details and a message about not letting your relationship wilt and die (and More Personal Stuff)

Here is the schedule online for your perusal and further information. The hours change daily during the zombie apocalypse so just run your request by Shannon and she will work it out. DISTANCE SCHEDULE AND INFO

NOTE ABOUT WHO QUALIFIES FOR WHAT when using Telehealth methods:
Licensed Professional Counseling via distance sessions is for Oregon residents.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy via distance is for California residents.
Life Coaching is available for all others who are not in need of licensed professional help, but still want a boost to the next level of your quality of life.

Couples or organizations outside of the USA who seek services from Relationship Gardening start by sending your request to Shannon.

email to Shannon by clicking here for email address

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New Enhanced Relationship Check-Up now available with streamlined 30% less questions, an easy way to reassess progress if we'd like, and plenty of information about strengths and what to repair. Available for $39 (to Gottman) for clients of Approved Member therapist Shannon Batts.

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How to find a good marriage counselor? Ask Shannon Batts in Portland, Oregon. Note from Shannon: Make sure they have advanced training (not just degrees and licenses) with couples, can describe what they learned and how they deliver it to you, and are also HAPPILY married! Can they speak to their privilege or marginalizations and how they impact counseling with you?

Shannon Batts, Licensed Professional Counselor of Portland, Oregon, lic# C2379, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for Californians, lic# MFT 34477, is Marriage Friendly, with better than neutrality toward the outcome of your life long love commitment. Shannon Batts is a Portland, Oregon counselor, with advanced skills, education and training in assisting couples (extremely rare among counselors). Lesbian, gay, trans, mixed gender identity, questioning gender, nonbinary, and straight couples of all ages seek out tools and support for their relationships from Shannon Batts. Shannon trains ongoingly to be antiracist and is a facilitator and consultant at Race Talks PDX. Transgender, Black Americans, or unhoused clients will find amazing flexibility in counseling rates if you need it because you've been through enough!

www.couplesintransition.com and www.spousesgroup.com also arrive here at https://relationshipgardening.com/
so as to direct couples facing gender transition to excellence in support for making it through transition together.

Electronic/internet based communication is not a guarantee of privacy as it is always subject to security breach or hacking. You do maintain the right to email, text or video chat regardless of the risk.

Shannon is the counselor's counselor where couples go to grow a happy marriage, with Gottman research based relationship and marriage help and telehealth video sessions. Marriage Counseling, couples' coaching, premarital counseling, help for transgender or non binary coming out in marriage, support for spouses of transgender or non binary partners, couples group for transgender partners and cisgender spouses, questioning gender in your marriage, gender affirming referral letters, marriage retreats, marriage workshops, antiracist coaching for engaged couples, antiracism groups for white people, antiracism couples groups, antiracism groups for professionals, custom antiracism groups, marriage affairs or adultery, porn or sex addiction or compulsion in your marriage, couples communication training-whatever you call it-make sure your best marriage counseling choice in CA, or in Portland, Oregon has Advanced Gottman Institute aka Relationship Research Institute training. A Gottman trained therapist like Shannon Batts knows how to move couples from sticky negativity to a garden of new possibilities from the very first couples' session. Services available by Zoom for all of CA and OR. relationshipgardening.com

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