Susan Shanley, LCSW
Psychotherapy and Wellness
163 Woodlawn Ave.
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
518-581-9250
sshanley@nycap.rr.com
Traditional and Complementary Therapies
Individual, Couples, Family, and Group Therapy
and what lies before us
are small matters, compared
to what lies within us.
Susan Shanley, LCSW is a psychotherapist as well as a Certified Eden Energy Medicine Practitioner, mediator, and muralist. Her approach to therapy is holistic and eclectic and includes both traditional and complementary therapies--from insight-oriented therapy to energy psychotherapy and EMDR*.
A licensed clinical social worker for 18 years, Susan specializes in matters of emotional and spiritual growth. She has extensive experience assisting people who have lived with anxiety, depression, panic, grief, relationship challenges, and traumatic personal histories.
Along with individual psychotherapy, Susan offers wellness classes, presentations, and training seminars. She teaches ongoing introductory, intermediate and advanced classes on Eden Energy Medicine in Saratoga Springs, NY, and also travels to teach.
As a muralist, Susan leads school and community mural projects that celebrate the natural world, the arts, and world cultures.
*EMDR= Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing
You will see stars and moon
Mirrored in your Being.
TRADITIONAL AND COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES: Susan offers a blend of traditional and complementary therapies that support healing, growth, and change, including:
- Insight-oriented Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Stress Management & Deep Relaxation
- Eden Energy Medicine
- Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
- Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
- TAPAS Acupressure Technique
- Creative Arts Therapies
As a process of self-exploration, psychotherapy can help clarify thoughts, feelings, and intentions. It can also help with overcoming interior roadblocks to positive change. Psychotherapy can be supportive when a person is seeking to release old emotional patterns and behaviors in order to create space for emotional and spiritual growth. It can be beneficial to people who have experienced or are experiencing any of the following:
- Life transitions
- Anxiety, panic, phobias, and depression
- Relationship issues
- Divorce and separation
- Parenting and child custody/visitation issues
- Grief, loss, and pain
- Trauma
- Sexual abuse
- Spiritual growth
- Creative blocks
"Grow, grow."
EDEN ENERGY MEDICINE: Susan offers introductory, intermediate, and year-long advanced classes in Energy Medicine. Classes are based on the work of Donna Eden, renowned pioneer in the field of Energy Medicine. Participants gain an awareness of the latticework of energy systems that fill & surround the body, and learn safe and gentle self-help exercises that can be practiced daily to enhance health. These simple and effective tools have been found to greatly benefit a person's mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health.
Introductory Energy Medicine classes:
Through hands-on practice, participants in the introductory 6-week series of classes learn:
- To practice specific exercises to protect, support, and balance one's energies
- To use simple and effective techniques to calm the Fight/Flight/Freeze Response
- To use a daily energy-wellness routine that promotes self-healing & well-being
- To trace meridians, clear and balance chakras, weave the aura, and energy test
Intermediate and advanced Energy Medicine classes:
- Intermediate and advanced classes delve more deeply into the energy systems, including the chakras, meridians, aura, Five Elements, and additional systems. Participants gain a vast array of self-help tools to boost their vitality and strengthen their foundational energy systems.
- Participants learn exercises and techniques designed to remove stagnant and persistent unwanted energies and to shift negative emotional patterns, thereby increasing their sense of joy in life. They practice specific gentle techniques designed to alleviate feelings of depression, fear, anger, panic, anxiety, and grief, as well as techniques designed to assist with stressful emotions associated with hormonal imbalances, pain, and numerous additional symptoms of stress. Emotional patterns that have been resistant to change can be addressed by activating specific energy systems. As the foundational energy systems strengthen and rebalance, one's core sense of self-esteem can be enhanced.
MEDIATION: Susan also offers family and divorce mediation. With 20 years of experience as a mediator, she has special expertise with child custody and visitation issues.
Personal Statement:
"My goal as a therapist is to create a space where people can gently and safely explore themselves and their lives--to achieve greater self-awareness, self-acceptance, healing, and energy for life.
I offer a variety of self-help tools that are uniquely tailored to meet a person's individual needs. With respect and compassion, I collaborate with children, adolescents, and adults to reach toward increased health, balance, and creativity.
In a caring and confidential setting, I invite people to explore their beliefs, patterns, and histories, and to gently clear away patterns and behaviors that are no longer beneficial to them."
CONTACT: Please call (518) 581-9250 or e-mail sshanley@nycap.rr.com for more information or to schedule an appointment or training seminar.
FEES AND HEALTH INSURANCE: Susan is a participating provider with most area health insurance plans, including Aetna, Blue Shield Of Northeastern New York, Ceridian, Empire Blue Cross-Blue Shield, The Empire Plan, Fidelis, GHI, Magellan, Upstate Medicare, MH Net, MVP, UBH, and Value Options. Flexible fees.
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