Our Team

Shannon Fischer

Clinical Coach & Trainer
MA, LPC, CAADC, CCTP, C-DBT, RACS
Pennsylvania

Shannon Fischer’s role as coach and trainer is to develop and deliver training programs for staff across the Caron continuum. She collaborates with department supervisors and ensures that programs meet accrediting bodies’ standards and fulfill Caron’s quality goals.

She implements and delivers a range of training programs for staff, provides coaching and education experiences, and supports clinicians in implementing evidence-based best practices. In addition to working as a clinical coach and trainer, Shannon is the internship coordinator for Caron Pennsylvania, coordinating intern training and overseeing undergraduate and graduate interns throughout their programs at Caron.

Prior to taking on this role in 2024, Shannon was a behavioral health therapist in Caron’s Young Adult Program, providing therapeutic support through individual and group therapy to young women. She came to Caron in 2021 as a behavioral health therapist in the Women’s Program. Before working at Caron, she was a therapist for two years at an outpatient treatment center for adolescents with sexual addiction and sexual disorders.

Shannon is a trauma-informed therapist with a Master of Arts in mental health counseling with a concentration in addiction and offenders counseling from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She has a Bachelor of Arts in applied psychology and a minor in criminal justice from Penn State University, Berks campus. She is a licensed professional counselor (LPC), a certified advanced alcohol and drugs counselor (CAADC), a certified clinical trauma professional (CCTP), certified in dialectical behavior therapy (C-DBT) and a rainbow advocate clinical specialist (RACS).