Alex Shanahan

I serve as the "bumper lanes " of guiding you as you create yourself, from yourself. I believe your body and it's experiences possess its own very unique language to learn, draw from, and create yourself with. I offer sessions exploring surfaced material through our senses and impulse to access our individual language, meet our options of what is waiting to be said, then employing agency and choice to filter through what is needed to confront, transform, and put back on your own reconstructed terms. I value curiosity, creativity, choice, and autonomy.

I’m a also a movement artist and educator specializing in intuitive movement, working with impulse, and exploration through embodiment and the subconscious. Additionally, I have a mental and behavioral health background working in crisis intervention/de-escalation, residential treatment, and addiction and recovery (*I am not a licensed mental health clinician or provide psychotherapy services*) My uniquely blended background in these fields allows me to work intuitively and with a deep level of presence, respect, and attunement to you and your needs moment by moment.

I work honestly, from professional and personal experiences, and believe in a compassionate relational human-to-human approach. I strongly believe in the intelligence of our nervous systems capacity to heal us, and have experienced the transformative effects from receiving my own Somatic Experiencing sessions. I would love to connect with you!