Mental Health Services

Healing that reflects self-acceptance, self-efficiency, and self-resiliency is possible. This happened when you are free to make choices congruent with your values and desires.

You Got Choices offers mental health services to individuals or relationship systems. This process is collaborative and focused on improving personal and social awareness within the system that you/we operate. We aim to support you in a paradigm shift, getting unstuck, and working through challenges and vulnerability to overcome challenges. It is a process accomplished together, as we move towards clear objectives.

Psychotherapy

At You Got Choices, the therapeutic process employs a variety of strategies, among them:

• The acquisition of reliable knowledge and skills.
• Shattering systems of shame, guilt, and doubt.
• Mapping personal desires.
• Appraising boundaries and limitations.
• Building positive self-esteem.
• Working on building stronger, meaningful relationships, and using the therapeutic relationship as a safe and trusted model for repair.
• Gaining deeper understandings on the social constructs impacting development and happiness.
• Facing and healing from personal trauma.
• Understanding the implications of intergenerational transition of trauma and familial/social/historical limitations.
• Making decisions for better mental health and personal satisfaction.

Shanna offers Individual and couple therapy to treat a wide-range of mental, emotional, and symptoms concerns:

• Managing symptoms of depression and anxiety.
• Chronic pain and its impact on overall functioning and as a barrier to happiness.
• Autism Spectrum Disorder and Neurotypical ways of being.
• Persistent and chronic mental dysfunctions.
• Somatic expressions of trauma.
• Anger management.
• Substance use, compulsions/obsessions, and out-of-control behaviors. All pathways of recovery and harm reduction welcome.
• Dealing with difficult family system.
• Being curious on parts of self.
• Jealousy and relationship conflict management.
• Living within our body/mind. We employs Health At Every Size and Body Trust models of being.

SEX THERAPY

When achieved and maintained, healthy relationships and sexual health are important parts of physical, emotional, social, spiritual and cognitive well-being. Unfortunately, many people are not satisfied with or are unsafe when it comes to intimate relationships and sexual expressions.

Sex therapy can be a stand-alone intervention on a specific issue of concerns, and also as a pathway for healing from trauma. This modality invites you to practice open, honest discussions in a safe, therapeutic, and skillful space.

Special topics in sexuality

• Sexual orientation, gender identity and expression. LGBTQIA+ proficient and knowledgeable.
• Attraction and (un)satisfactory sexual desire.
• Safe, consensual, and risk-aware sex practices.
• Ethical non-monogamy, polyamory, and non-hierarchical family systems.
• BDSM, kink, fetishes, and the sexual deviancy in all of us.
• Managing sex in relationships and differing level of desire and style.
• Orgasms, sexual preferences, and sexual joy, as well as difficulties with orgasm and pleasure.
• Sexuality and spirituality.
• Sexual discourse within the relationship/family system.
• Having sex as a trauma survivor.
• Sexuality and functional diversity.

It is always important to discern a match between a client and their therapist; therefore, please contact Shanna to schedule a brief phone consultation to determine compatibility.