Shanna Todd

My name is Shanna and I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I utilize a combination of existential, solution-focused, and narrative therapy to assist individuals and couples toward living their fullest, authentic, and best life. Emphasis is on the importance of self-awareness and the transformative power of taking responsibility for creating change, with the task of finding practical solutions for making observable progress. I graduated with a Master of Science degree in Counseling Psychology from a State university in 2012, and I became fully licensed as a therapist in 2021. Along the way, I picked up professional experience as an entrepreneur, a project manager, an agency director, and a teacher. I’ve also had the personal experience of raising four children to young adulthood.

Our first session will consist of me asking you to provide an overview of what problems are bringing you to therapy. You can feel free to provide as much detail and backstory as you wish. I will be asking certain questions, along the way, to better inform me of the problem and to help me begin to formulate the best ways to assist you. Our following sessions will be used to get to the root of issues and/or begin to explore practical, sustainable, ways that you can improve your current circumstances.

My greatest strengths as a provider include sincere empathy, a non-judgmental attitude, ability to view circumstances through multiple therapeutic and experiential angles, and reliability. I am a good fit for clients who possess insight and the willingness to problem-solve.

My services are not a good fit for those struggling with thoughts of suicide, those who engage in extreme self-harm, those with active substance abuse concerns, or those diagnosed with a personality disorder. I believe these matters are better addressed in an in-person setting and by specialists focused on these areas of treatment. By consenting to telehealth therapy with me, you are attesting that you are not currently fitting any of the above descriptions of not being a good fit. If you experience thoughts of suicide with any intention to act on them, please call 911 or your local crisis hotline to request immediate, local, support.