Psychotherapist
In-person at Ballantyne Location, Telehealth option provided for NC & SC Residents

Navigating life’s shifts and transitions is at the heart of the support Shana provides to her clients.  She offers attuned listening with acceptance and gentle challenging with grounded support, helping clients ease anxiety, make sense of change, and rediscover their inner steadiness during times of confusion and uncertainty.  Targeting not just coping skills, Shana also assists clients grappling with the deeper questions about life direction, purpose and meaning, self-identity, and finding their own unique "what's next?” 

Shana works with individual adult clients age 25 to Elderhood.  Areas Shana provides support for include:

·      Healing from difficult/toxic relationships

·      Midlife transitions/Menopause/Empty nest

·      Divorce/Widowhood

·      Retirement transition

·      Job loss/Financial stress/Career burnout

·      Family conflict/Tension with adult children

·      Caretaking for parents and spouses

·      Solo parenting/Solo aging

·      Loss/Grief/Bereavement

·      Unpacking and processing old trauma

Additionally, as a Licensed Marriage and Family therapist, Shana supports individuals who are participating in couples therapy, offering supportive individual therapy and collaboration with their couples counselor to foster a holistic, well-rounded integration of clients’ therapeutic work.  

Shana’s work is informed by a rich blend of personal and professional experiences.  With roots in Colorado and the Midwest and in both rural and urban cultures, Shana has insight into the impact of cultural nuance and lived experience.  Her years as a Teacher Librarian in NC public schools deepened her understanding of how identity, background, and opportunity can intersect with diversities such as socioeconomic/geographic, ethnic/racial, gender/sexual, neurodiverse/typical.  As a bilingual French and English speaker, Shana values the role language plays in identity and self-expression and brings this lens to helping clients grow their own empowering life narrative.

A graduate of Pfeiffer University, UNC Greensboro, and the University of Colorado, Shana embraces continuing education and skills growth.  In her psychotherapy work, she brings an integration of:

·      Guided mindfulness with Somatic Inner Relationship Focusing

·      Connection to inner parts with IFS and Jungian-informed depth work, including dream and shadow work

·      Processing past trauma with Somatic EMDR and Expressive Arts

Fun restorative time for Shana includes conscious movement dance, hiking, gardening, hanging out with friends and dogs, and growing the big stack of emotional support books on her nightstand.