Counseling

Counseling

I approach counseling from a place of curiosity and awe for the human experience.

I find the experience of asking for help to be vulnerable, brave and intuitive. As someone with lived experience accessing mental health counseling I want your desires and needs to be prioritized in our counseling sessions.

To ensure this I will start by asking what you want to get out of the counseling experience or what your goal with therapy is to ensure I support you with your deepest desires. It is important to remember that counseling is not a passive experience, rather a collaboration or dance together navigating the human experience.

I value a non- pathologizing approach to mental health and educate my clients on what my assessment means, what diagnosis might be presenting, what I notice, what intervention I am utilizing to allow for connection in your community around your own mental health. I believe this perspective contributes to community healing. I utilize yoga philosophy, mindfulness, breathing techniques and movement into my practice to build a mind body connection with breath being the anchor. 

I work with all walks of life with special interest in serving: 

  • Trauma survivors

  • Veterans and their families

  • Neurodivergent people

  • 1st generation immigrants and families

  • LQBTQIA2S+ community

  • Pregnant people and parents

  • Youth and adults in custody or in your history

  • Survivors of violence including but not limited to; interpersonal violence, stalking, sexual assault, child abuse and human trafficking 

  • Those looking to deepen their yoga journey

I specialize in children’s mental health, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), substance use, dementia, care planning, trauma, anxiety, family and couples, perinatal mental health, behavior change, stress management and burnout prevention. 

Shannon O’Brien

LCSW, LICSW, C-IAYT, CADC- R, PWS, Behavioral Health Consultant, Certified International Yoga Therapist