Shallyn Wells (they/she)

I have personal and professional experience working with burnout in caregivers, direct service providers, and folks working within high-urgency professions (i.e. lawyers, nurses, doctors, etc.). I treat burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue in their systemic context (i.e. capitalism, white supremacy, ableism, cis-heteropatriarchy, etc.) acknowledging burnout as an embodied response to unjust and unsustainable systems.

Being with the unique ways that attachment wounding is held in the body is a core element of how I work. I hold patterns of attachment in relationship (what we avoid and what we grasp) as pathways to our most tender (and often youngest) parts of self. I work with attachment wounding by supporting you as we map these patterns, make gentle contact with these parts, and begin to foster gentle relationship between how you aspire to feel in relationship and how you actually feel right now.

I have personal and professional experience working with burnout in caregivers, direct service providers, and folks working within high-urgency professions (i.e. lawyers, nurses, doctors, etc.). I treat burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue in their systemic context (i.e. capitalism, white supremacy, ableism, cis-heteropatriarchy, etc.) acknowledging burnout as an embodied response to unjust and unsustainable systems.

My lived experience as a queer and non-binary person informs my work. I begin with the premise that everyone’s relationship to their gender identity and sexuality is simultaneously personal and contextualized by relationships and systems. In my practice, I hold your relationship to your identity as sacred and invite us to BOTH celebrate the joy of queerness AND navigate together what safety, protection, care, or tending is needed to feel into the fullness of that joy and of yourself.

My lived experience as a queer and non-binary person informs my work. I begin with the premise that everyone’s relationship to their gender identity and sexuality is simultaneously personal and contextualized by relationships and systems. In my practice, I hold your relationship to your identity as sacred and invite us to BOTH celebrate the joy of queerness AND navigate together what safety, protection, care, or tending is needed to feel into the fullness of that joy and of yourself.

My lived experience as a queer and non-binary person informs my work. I begin with the premise that everyone’s relationship to their gender identity and sexuality is simultaneously personal and contextualized by relationships and systems. In my practice, I hold your relationship to your identity as sacred and invite us to BOTH celebrate the joy of queerness AND navigate together what safety, protection, care, or tending is needed to feel into the fullness of that joy and of yourself.

I have an M.A. in Somatic Psychotherapy; however, the most important aspects of somatic healing, I learned through the lived experience of being a person with a body in relationship with other people with bodies. In my practice, centering the body means that I trust that our bodies are always organizing towards healing and relationship (in their own varied and unique ways). A somatic approach can serve as a gentle bridge between how we think we should feel and how we are actually feeling.