Mental Health Services
Shanna believes that mental health reflects self-acceptance, self-effeciency, and self-resiliency. This can only happen when you are free to make choices conjurent with your values and desires.
Shanna offers mental health services to individuals or relationship systems. This process is focused on improving personal and social awareness within the system that you/we operate. Shanna aims to support you in a paradigm shift, getting unstuck, and working through challanges and vulnerability to overcome challenges. It is a process accomplished together, as we move towards clear objectives.
The therapeutic process employs a varierty of strategies, among them:
- The acquisition of reliable knowledge and skills.
- Shattering systems of shame, guilt, and doubt.
- Mapping personal desires.
- Appraising boundaries and limitations.
- Building positive self-esteem.
- Working on building stronger, meaningful relationships, and using the therapeutic relationship as a safe and trusted model for repair.
- Gaining deeper understandings on the social contructs impacting developement and happiness.
- Facing and healing from personal trauma.
- Understanding the implications of intergenerational transmition of trauma and familial/social/historical limitations.
- Making decisions for better mental health and personal satisfaction.
Shanna offers Individual and couple therapy to treat a wide-range of mental, emotional, and symptoms concerns:
- Managing symptoms of depression and anxiety.
- Chronic pain and its impact on overall functioning and as a barrier to happiness.
- Autism Spectrum Disorder and Neurotypical ways of being.
- Persistent and chronic mental dysfunctions.
- Somatic expressions of trauma.
- Anger management.
- Substance use, compulsions/obsessions, and out-of-control behaviors. All pathways of recovery and harm reduction welcome.
- Dealing with difficult family system.
- Being curious on parts of self.
- Jealousy and relationship conflict management.
- Living within our body/mind. Shanna employs Health At Every Size and Body Trust models of being.
SEX THERAPY
When achieved and maintained, healthy relationships and sexual health are important parts of physical, emotional, social, spiritual and cognitive well-being. Unfortunately, many people are not satisfied with or are unsafe when it comes to intimate relationships and sexual expressions.
Shanna offers Sex therapy not just as a stand-alone intervention on a specific issue of concerns, but also as a pathway for healing from trauma while practicing open, honest discussions in a safe, theraputic, and skillful space. Special topics in sexuality:
- Sexual orientation, gender idenity and expression. LGBTQIA+ proficient and knowledgeable.
- Attraction and (un)satisfactory sexual desire.
- Safe, consensual, and risk-aware sex practices.
- Ethical non-monogamy, polyamory, and non-hierarchical family systems.
- BDSM, kink, fetishes, and the sexual deviency in all of us.
- Managing sex in relationships and differing level of desire and style.
- Orgasms, sexual perferences, and sexual joy, as well as difficulties with orgasm and pleasure.
- Sexuality and spirituality.
- Sexual discourse within the relationship/family system.
- Having sex as a trauma survivor.
- Sexuality and functional diversity.
It is always important to discern a match between a client and their therapist; therefore, please contact Shanna to schedule a brief phone consultation to determine compatibility.