Shana Davis

Shana is a licensed mental health counselor with more than 10 years of experience helping adolescents and adults navigate addiction, anxiety, depression and other mood concerns, ADHD, trauma, grief and loss, relationship challenges, and the everyday stressors that can make life feel overwhelming.

Having worked extensively in individual, couples, and group counseling settings with clients ranging from age 15 through adulthood, Shana understands that there is no single “right” way to do therapy. She welcomes people from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and stages of life and believes therapy should be tailored to the person sitting in front of her.

Shana’s style is warm, genuine, creative, and down-to-earth. She knows starting therapy can feel intimidating, particularly if you’ve never been to therapy before or haven’t felt understood in the past. You don’t need to arrive with everything figured out or even know exactly what you want to say.

Taking the first step is a big deal. Shana’s goal is to give you a soft place to land—and a supportive place from which to grow.

When not in session, I am spending time with my family either outdoors or having a showtune karaoke dance party. Stick figure drawings are my speciality and are often featured in my sessions. I look forward to working with you!

Shana believes therapy works best when you can show up as your authentic self without worrying about saying the “right” thing. Her approach is collaborative, compassionate, and individualized, with a focus on helping you understand yourself more deeply while developing practical skills that can create meaningful change in everyday life.

She draws from existential and humanistic therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and narrative therapy to help clients explore inner conflicts, recognize patterns, strengthen coping skills, and move toward goals that reflect who they genuinely want to be.

Shana is also SMART Recovery certified and incorporates its evidence-based, REBT-informed principles when working with substance use concerns and recovery.

Therapy with Shana doesn’t always have to look like sitting across from someone and talking for an hour. When helpful, she incorporates music, videos, creative activities, hands-on exercises, and opportunities to practice coping skills together. There may even be an occasional stick-figure drawing involved. The goal is to make therapy feel safe, engaging, memorable, and—most importantly—useful in your life outside of the therapy room.

Your first session with Shana is a chance to get to know each other, talk about what brought you to therapy, and begin identifying what you would like to change—without pressure to tell your entire life story in one appointment.

Shana will spend time learning about what you’re experiencing, what has been difficult lately, important relationships and life experiences, strategies you’ve already tried, and what you hope to gain from therapy. You’ll also have an opportunity to ask questions and talk about what has—or hasn’t—worked for you in counseling before.

Together, you’ll begin identifying goals and developing an approach that feels comfortable and meaningful to you. Some people come to therapy knowing exactly what they want to work on; others simply know that something doesn’t feel right. Both are completely valid places to begin.

You can expect warmth, curiosity, honesty, and probably some humor along the way. Shana’s priority is helping you feel comfortable enough to be yourself while creating a path toward meaningful change at a pace that works for you.