Trauma Focused Therapy
I work with a wide variety of trauma based needs and guide clients as they navigate the complexities of their life. I focus first on establishing a strong level of trust, help clients stabilize their trauma responses, and then mindfully guide clients through trauma and self exploration and self trust building. I utilize trauma focused therapies such a Internal Family Systems, psychodynamic processing, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and body based therapies to guide clients back to themselves and cultivate safety within their internal world.
“Sometimes Resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakable goodness.”-Gregory Boyle
Faith Deconstruction
I believe deconstructing and reconstructing of faith is a natural part of growth with the relationship with our Creator. However, this journay can be isolating, and also bring fear, anxiety and shame. If you struggle with finding a space to process your beliefs and wrestle with life and God without judgement, I welcome you.
“If we trust the process enough to honestly engage with our questions, deconstruction promises to reveal undiscovered bias, limiting beliefs, and flawed doctrines that harm people.”-Angela Herrington
“You are invited by the Divine
to pick apart your faith. Any time you stop asking questions or trying to figure things out, you’re done. Deconstruction doesn’t have to be demolition. Sometimes it involves using the same pieces but in a different way.”-Sarah Heath
LGBTQIA+ Affirming Therapy
If you struggle to find acceptance and support from the Christian community due to your gender identity/sexual orientation and want to explore ways to love yourself and God completely; Beloved, you are welcome here. Too many children/teens/adults choose to take their own lives due to the rejection of self from families and people of faith. It should never have been this way.
“As I dance in the streets at my city’s Pride parade, I will embrace the scandal of it all and try to become more scandalous in my own expression of grace and faith. And in so doing, I will find myself inside the abundant, raucous pleasure of God, who is ever joining all our stories in promiscuous love.” -Rev. Tonetta Landis-Aina
Social Justice Oriented
“I understand now that I’m not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, “For the same reason I laugh so often-because I’m paying attention’”. -Glennon Melton
As a therapist and a being a part of the collective humanity I strive to maintain a perspective that is actively aware and brings attention to dynamics of privlage, oppression, and how it effects trauma.
“No daylight to separate us. Only kinship. Inching ourselves closer to creating a community of kinship such that God might recognize it. Soon we imagine, with God, this circle of compassion. Then we imagine no one standing outside of that circle, moving ourselves closer to the margins so that the margins themselves will be erased. We stand there with those whose dignity has been denied. We locate ourselves with the poor and the powerless and the voiceless. At the edges, we join the easily despised and the readily left out. We stand with the demonized so that the demonizing will stop. We situate ourselves right next to the disposable so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.” -Gregory Boyle
Religious and Spiritual Trauma
Religious trauma is a special kind of wound. Those of us who are survivors know the utter dismissal of self and the destruction of what it means to be human that comes with it. Healing takes time but it is worth the effort.
“We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection. Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.” - Brené Brown
MEET YOUR Therapist
Shaylyn, MSW, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Shaylyn is an LCSW who has experience with all ages and a diverse expansion of needs. She has worked with youth, families, and adults in schools, the juvenile justice system, community mental health, and through volunteer community efforts.
In her free time she enjoys hiking, engaging in community work as well as activism efforts, spending time with her two fur balls (cats) and creating memories with friends and family. Shaylyn is a travel junky and has a deep love for exploring cultural traditions and food.