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Private sessions are an experiential multidisciplinary approach steeped in the research and anchored in your desire for something different. Turn towards what you have forgotten. Better understand the difficult and painful places in your life. Learn to create a new narrative in your life for more relief, ease, kindness, clarity and confidence.

At the NeuroImaginal Institute, Dr. Shannon Simonelli works with her clients to navigate every-day challenges and scary, big life patterns in non-threatening, creative ways. Be supported in a safe container to turn towards and recreate things that hold you hostage to the past. Learn to trust yourself, see things more clearly and make more life affirming choices. Dr. Shannon’s clients learn to understand the heartbreaks of their past to cultivate more real confidence, meet their life with more internal peace, mastery and aliveness. This work is interdisciplinary, soul centered, image and body based.

Dr. Shannon’s clients may be accomplished, yet often feel the cultural pressure of perfectionism, feeling not-good-enough or second guessing themselves. They may have physical or emotional pain and a big stress over load. They may feel restless, quietly lost or that life is not what they hoped it would be. Their deeper, most personal questions are: Do I have what it takes to succeed? Can I really be happy? Will I ever find the right work or partner? Is there more to life and how am I missing it?

As a master clinician of her unique integrative approach, Dr. Shannon understands how painful and destructive our internalized past can be. She also knows how freeing, spacious and full of choice life can become with inner work. Growing up with her own family mental health issues, learning disability, depression & anxiety, she has traveled the path of personal healing. Her education and training have given her experience in acute clinical care, addiction recovery & private practice to support real, embodied change with her clients.  Her mission is to guide clients home to who they really are & to what matters most to them so they can live free, connected & fully alive.

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An integrative approach with Dr. Simonelli is a non-pathologizing approach to address the challenges of living a meaningful, thriving life. Integrative, Imaginal Creative Arts Therapy helps you build your capacity to be kind with yourself, to tolerate the unexpected, to navigate the ups & downs of life with presence and growing mastery.

Dr. Shannon specializes in working with therapists and helping professionals in their own inner work and stress management. She works with those feeling stuck or overwhelmed in life, work or relationships, those questioning religious/spiritual orientation and sense of self if leaving a religious group, LGBTQ+ life & relationship issues. She works with teens and their parents/parenting issues and highly sensitive individuals.

Reach out, schedule a consult to discuss the goodness of fit for this imaginal, integrative Creative Arts Therapy & with Dr. Shannon.

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Clients Say

Thank you so much! My daughter said something very powerful today about your session. She said (paraphrasing) that it “put her in touch with her pain.” She was very stimulated in the most positive way by this first session. Onward!

I have gotten more benefit out of our first few sessions than I have with other therapists after many more visits.

We are so grateful for Shannon’s work with our Daughter, who greatly respects her. We feel the Art Therapy with Shannon is deepening our daughter’s awareness, expression and aiding in her progress with her overall therapy.

ARE YOU:

  • Unhappy, struggling, stressed or worried much of the time
  • Doing the best you can and yet it feels ‘not enough’
  • Questioning your faith or coming out of religious indoctrination
  • A healer or therapist in need of a safe, high quality place to process, reflect, release stress, or make meaning in your personal or work life

DO YOU STRUGGLE WITH:

  • Burnout, compassion fatigue, over giving, high stress
  • Self doubt, second guessing yourself, not trusting your self
  • Focus, organization or follow through
  • Self-esteem & self-worth issues
  • Educational wounding or abuse
  • Teen issues or parenting your teens

DO YOU FELL:

  • In transition (death of loved one, empty nest, end of relationship, divorce, graduation, career change, retirement, menopause)
  • Out of balance with all the demands on you
  • Loss of passion or purpose
  • Lost spiritually

WOULD YOU LIKE TO FELL:

  • Support to be with what is true in you, your life, work or relationships
  • More resilience, safety & greater trust
  • More freedom in your life
  • More confident in your self, your ideas, your choices
  • More joy & happiness
  • Untangled from the past and free to create your own life Reach out and become a new client.
Are you ready to get support? Let's Talk.

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Currently sessions are by video conference or phone, in-office visits will resume in the near future. Enjoy the dignity and possibility in life that is your birthright

*Shannon Simonelli Ph.D., ATR is a Ph.D. in Imaginal Psychology and Creative Arts Therapy, a Nationally Registered Art Therapist, and credentialed in a variety of integrative body based approaches.

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