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

Shana is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a graduate of Pfeiffer University. She brings sixteen years of public-school teaching experience, working with populations reflecting age, economic, cultural and language, ethnic and racial, gender and sexual, geographic, and neurological diversity. In addition to educating, Shana helped build positive relationships, establish strong connections, and create systems of support, work that continues to inform her practice as a psychotherapist.

As a mental health professional, Shana has served individuals, couples, and families facing challenges with relationships, loss, divorce and estrangement, grief and bereavement, anxiety, childhood and medical trauma, substance use, caregiver fatigue, solo parenting, economic stress, aging, and life stage transitions. Shana serves clients age 18+.

Shana brings compassionate collaboration, strength-based inquiry, and a passion for integrative holistic healing. She offers an open-hearted approach and believes that we can all find a path of healing and empowerment in order to move towards that which we most value and hold meaningful for our lives. Shana brings a client-centered, integrative approach incorporating relational, behavioral, and somatic model strategies. She has advanced training in providing Eye Movement and Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) - an effective intervention for clients who have experienced trauma. Shana has also completed Gottman Level 1 training. Among her areas of interest are conscious movement and dance, holistic wellness, expressive arts, bibliotherapy, therapeutic storytelling, and neuroscience research.