Shannon Ferry-Branaugh

Taking the step to pursue therapy is a brave and courageous choice. I believe therapy can offer a supportive, non-judgmental, and inclusive space in which to explore your innate capacity for growth, change, and healing. I support children, adolescents, adults, and families with concerns related to eating disorders, trauma and dissociation, relationship to food and body, LGBTQ+ experiences, chronic illness/disability issues, anxiety, somatic concerns, and life transitions. My therapeutic relationships are most often marked by compassion, warmth, humor, and empathy, and my overall approach is collaborative, strengths-based, and client-centered, embodied by intersectional feminist, anti-oppressive, and social justice-oriented values. When working with clients who are experiencing eating disorders, disordered eating, food- and body-based trauma, chronic dieting, and body image concerns, I am guided by a Health at Every Size and Body Trust™ approach. This approach is grounded in the values and principles of fat liberation, self-compassion, anti-racism, shame resilience, weight neutral self-care, and intuitive eating. My practice is trauma-informed and uses an eclectic therapeutic approach that includes, but is not limited to: motivational interviewing, narrative therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR), internal family systems, family-based therapy, structural family therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness. I welcome the opportunity to be a part of your story and to join you in the process of healing.