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You are the expert on your experience. I am interested in you and bring my toolbox: body awareness and movement techniques, mindfulness, expressive arts practices, narrative inquiry, and behavioral awareness. Together, we co-create the conditions to support you moving beyond problems to release creative energy, optimism and hope. I incorporate current research in the field of attachment, trauma, and neurobiology into my somatic orientation including social-justice and feminist intersectionality. My aim is to help you navigate relationships with self, loved ones, and the wider world with confidence and ease. My clients appreciate my truth-telling, non-judgmental curiosity, playfulness, and creativity. Diving into yourself and changing patterns can be hard, and I believe in having fun along the way. I am very accepting of non-traditional lifestyles, and delight in assisting clients who want to live outside the box.
I believe ~
- We are interconnected with all living things. When you change, the whole system is impacted. Self-care is a radical act.
- Who you are in the world matters: Where you have come from, the forces acting upon you, and also who you want to be now. What kind of impact do you want to have?
- The body holds immense wisdom. I intend to support your natural healing process, restoring vitality to every aspect of you – mind, body, spirit.
- The stories we tell matter. How we speak to ourselves matters. Many of us learned to speak to ourselves harshly. You can learn to be with yourself compassionately.
- Imperfection is relaxing. Deep change can happen when you allow your real self to show up.
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About me: Growing up in rural West Virginia, my family occupied various religious, cultural, and class positions. I was fascinated and angered by limits placed on people with the excuses of gender, race, class or sexual orientation. Though I loved the peace of the forest and open space, I knew that I was too sensitive to flourish in an environment where conformity was rewarded with safety, and difference punished with criticism and violence. So, as a young adult, I migrated to San Francisco seeking support to unfurl. My healing began with Re-Evaluation Counseling, yoga, and Earth-based spirituality. I have used dance, writing, painting, and ritual as expressive and therapeutic tools.
I practiced massage therapy and Reiki before obtaining my master's degree in Somatic Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Since then, I completed additional training in couples' therapy with Terry Real. I'm fully trained in EMDR, completed level 2 Brainspotting, and practice the Tamura Method of hands-on therapy. I have also been self-employed for over a decade in creative businesses and finance, and can offer clients assistance transforming their relationship to work and money.
I feel honored to do this work.
I practiced massage therapy and Reiki before obtaining my master's degree in Somatic Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Since then, I completed additional training in couples' therapy with Terry Real. I'm fully trained in EMDR, completed level 2 Brainspotting, and practice the Tamura Method of hands-on therapy. I have also been self-employed for over a decade in creative businesses and finance, and can offer clients assistance transforming their relationship to work and money.
I feel honored to do this work.
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
~Leonard Cohen
~Leonard Cohen
Shanna LoPresti, LMFT, Marriage and Family Therapist #114140