Shannon Rice, MA, LPC, SE
Starting therapy can take courage!
Do you experience anxiety and depression at times, feeling stuck?
Do you long for more freedom and joy?
Perhaps you have a difficult time trusting others or yourself?
Have you experienced feeling frozen and shut down?
Do you long to expand your sense of well-being and belonging, both in yourself and in the world?
Through Somatic Experiencing® Therapy, I support you in not just managing anxiety or depression, but also in moving toward real freedom from these difficult states. This approach gently reconnects you with your body’s natural capacity to heal. It’s a privilege to walk alongside you, supporting your journey toward greater ease, resilience, and wholeness.
My MA training is rooted in Buddhist psychology. I honor this as the foundational ground in which I will hold you and the space with compassion, acceptance, and the of view of presence and flexibility in any situation. I will be guiding you to lean towards what is hard and feels fixed, helping you gain confidence to meet the places that feel scary or tender. It is also my pleasure to help you reconnect and turn towards what is joyful and enlivening with a fresh perspective.
Using Somatic Experiencing® Therapy together, we can help you recover your ability to feel present and willingly engage your life instead of settling for simply surviving.
In our work together, you can gradually experience more ease as you learn how to befriend your body and its intelligence. You may even discover some hidden superpowers.
You can learn to experience your body as a place of refuge and support rather than a place to avoid. You can feel more capable and empowered to face the inevitable ups and downs of life. You might be surprised to discover what Is possible.
If you are having challenges with intimacy and sexuality in your relationship , you may find that our work together can help you find safety and connection in ways you may not have thought were possible. One’s relationship with sexuality can become skewed for so many reasons (culture, original family, religion, gender roles, etc.), including sexual assault or trauma.
Shutdown, fear, or avoidance are common responses to such experiences. You can reclaim your relationship to intimacy and sexuality through this gentle, embodied approach using Somatic Experiencing® Therapy.
I strive to be a socially-just and culturally-informed therapist. I understand and honor how your multitude of social locations and identities shape your experience and opportunities in the world.
I am a life-long learner and enjoy challenging myself to better understand how my own privileged and oppressed identities shape my views and experience in the world. I strive to offer a supportive and safe space for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ folx and beyond.