Shantel Farrow , LMFT

Shantel Farrow is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and trauma. She focuses on women's issues and personal growth, offering direct support for concerns like self-esteem, parenting strain, and coping with life changes.

Shantel works in Oklahoma and brings eight years of clinical experience to her sessions. She uses straightforward, person-centered methods that prioritize each person's goals and values. Sessions are practical and aimed at building skills people can use between meetings.

Her approach blends attachment-based thinking with cognitive behavioral strategies and elements of mindfulness and existential reflection. That means Shantel pays attention to patterns in relationships, helps identify unhelpful thoughts, and supports people as they find personal meaning and choices in hard situations.

She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, when trauma processing is appropriate. EMDR is used to help reduce the hold of painful memories so people can move forward with day-to-day life.

Shantel helps with a wide range of concerns including addiction, ADHD, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and intimacy-related issues. Her sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to each person's readiness for change.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationship patterns and emotional bonds. Online sessions let clients talk through how past connections affect current behavior and practice new ways of relating in daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. In virtual meetings CBT tools like thought records and behavioral experiments are introduced and reviewed between sessions to track progress and changes.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit the person's situation. Plans can be adjusted over time based on what helps most, so the work stays practical and goal-focused.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial cues and practice interactions in real time. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching-style reminders, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.