Shannon Reynolds (she/her)

I leieve that the quality and security our relationships begins with our very first relationships with our parents or caregivers as babies and they deeply affect how we experience the world. They also deeply affect how we experience ourselves and relate to ourselves. In this way, we can look at ruptures in any kind of relationship - to our jobs or homes as much as to our partner or family - as an inegral part of our experience and can then greatly contirbute to our overall health.

Trauma is an anxiety disorder that lives in the body so my approach to treating trauma is oriented through skill-building in areas of mindfulness, grounding and relaxation. All these skills will help you ease trauma reactivity by telling your nervous system: "Everything is ok" so that you can offer yourself a foundation of safety and security.

I approach anxiety as a fundamental cause of most mental illness. Stress, worry, trauma, overwhelm, panic and many more manfiest under the heading of anxiety. In my years of practice I have found that most mental ailments can be assuaged by treating anxiety. I also believe in creativity as the antidote to anxiety as anxiety often comes out of our imaginations (think of how you can come up with the worst possible scenario for something!). We can use that same imagination creatively in order