About

Hi I’m Shawn Are you motivated for therapy? Someone who is functioning highly in work and career but you are having trouble in your relationships or with your co-parent with whom you have 1 or more children and tensions are either presently high or consistently escalated? Do you have a teen that you know is being affected by the tension in your home and you want them to be able to talk to someone, and learn new coping and communication skills to relieve anxiety and/or depression? Perhaps you are an individual who identifies as an adult child raised in a family where there was an alcoholic/addict relative or you get into relationships with people like that as an adult and you want to break that pattern, save your relationship and develop new coping skills to make better healthier choices. I work with individuals, co-parents, teens and couples to escalate tensions in themselves and relationships, and learn how to navigate conflict to improve the overall dynamic for healthier sustainable interactions. I am advanced trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy, and utilize mentalization based exercises, mindfulness and a family systems approach to support you in experiential and action oriented, mind body awareness to equip you will tools to use in and out of our sessions. Together we will practice the skills you learn and develop on each session. You will learn how to differentiate thoughts from feelings, and emotional regulation during activation/conflict/upset. Let’s start by meeting in a safe space for you to be exactly who you are and met with non judgement and curiosity, and see if we are a good fit, for building rapport, trust, directness and a collaborative alliance