Ashley Shanahan

Trauma-informed therapist and art therapist helping adults reconnect with themselves through insight, creativity, & nervous system healing.

in New Jersey

Services
  • Individual

About My Clients

If life has started to feel more like survival than living, therapy can help you reconnect with yourself and better understand the patterns shaping your experiences. Together, we will explore the obstacles contributing to stress, emotional overwhelm, or disconnection through psychoeducation, skill-building, and deeper processing. Healing is possible, and you do not have to navigate it alone.

My Background and Approach

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC) in New Jersey with over 10 years of experience providing trauma-informed mental health care across outpatient, partial hospitalization, and private practice settings. My clinical background includes extensive work supporting adults navigating trauma, PTSD/CPTSD, anxiety, chronic stress, burnout, emotional regulation difficulties, and major life transitions. I also have experience in clinical supervision, trauma-focused program development, and facilitating therapeutic groups and workshops. My approach integrates evidence-based psychotherapy with optional creative, somatic, and insight-oriented interventions to help clients better understand themselves, process difficult experiences, and build a more grounded relationship with their emotions and nervous system. Clients often appreciate my calm, thoughtful, and collaborative style.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Art Therapy Depth Therapy Internal Family Systems
Other Techniques
  • Art Therapy
  • Attachment Theory
  • Depth Therapy
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Eclectic Therapy
  • Expressive Art Therapy
  • Feminist Therapy
  • Humanistic Therapy
  • Relational Therapy
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Trauma Therapy
  • NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Burnout Codependency Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Other Issues
  • Attachment
  • Burnout
  • Codependency
  • Depression
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • LGBTQ-Friendly Therapists
  • Personality Disorders
  • Self-Esteem
  • Sexual Abuse or Assault
  • Suicidal Thoughts
I offer online counseling in the following states:

At A Glance

  • Experience: 11 years of practice
  • Rate: $75 - 200/session

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