Shannon Edwards (she/her/they/them)

LMFT & Associate PCC at Axis Mundi Center for Mental Health
Accepting Clients

I am a bi-racial, queer, neurodivergent, and highly sensitive person. Let's talk.

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in California
Supervised by Elysha Martinez, LMFT #93493

Services
  • Individual
  • Child
  • Adolescent/Teen

About My Clients

Clients who seek me out as support on their journey are often experiencing anxiety, mood disruptions, stress, life transitions, spiritual questioning/emergence, relational issues, and may have a history of trauma. I've also worked with clients who are neurodivergent, highly sensitive, creative, and beginning to explore their upbringing. Together we'll take a gentle road towards your healing and reconnect to your inner knowing.

My Background and Approach

I approach therapy through a holistic, trauma-informed, and depth-oriented lens. What this looks like is holding space for all of you including your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies. We'll move through our time together gently and with care. We'll also look at how your unconscious makes itself known in daily life. We might do this by exploring dreams, symbols, or meaningful coincidences. I often draw on art therapy techniques, mindfulness, and emotional and somatic processing. Life can be hard enough, so my approach is gentle, curious, and non-judgemental. Work with children (8-12) and younger teens is child-centered, trauma-informed, and focused on play and the beginning stages of deeper exploration. Child work is collaborative and requires caregivers to be active participants. As a near-death experiencer, I also hold special interest in exploring and integrating NDE, OBE, psychedelic integration, and mystical experiences.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I'm personally aware of the systemic and oppressive systems that have long harmed and continue to harm us -as individuals, within our communities, and the world. I will acknowledge that hurt, your hurt, in our work together. Sometimes all we can do is survive to fight another day (and I'll give you tools to do just that). But I also believe healing is possible and that as an individual begins their healing journey so does their community.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Depth Therapy Eclectic Therapy Holistic Therapy
Other Techniques
  • Art Therapy
  • Attachment Theory
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Culturally Sensitive Therapy
  • Depth Therapy
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Existential Therapy
  • Feminist Therapy
  • Harm Reduction Therapy
  • Holistic Therapy
  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Play Therapy
  • Transpersonal Therapy
  • Person-Centered (Rogerian)
  • Trauma Therapy

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Anxiety Depression Grief or Loss
Other Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Burnout
  • Child Issues
  • Chronic Pain or Illness
  • Depression
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Gender Identity Therapy
  • Grief or Loss
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • LGBTQ-Friendly Therapists
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Racial Identity
  • Self-Harm
  • Sexual Abuse or Assault
  • Spirituality
  • Systemic Oppression Therapy
  • Teen Issues
  • Women's Issues
Insurance Plans Accepted
  • Aetna
  • Blue Cross of California
  • Anthem
  • Carelon Behavioral Health Plan
  • Quest Behavioral Health
  • Anthem EAP - Bank of America
I offer online counseling in the following states:

At A Glance

  • Experience: 8 years of practice
  • Rate: $125 - 175/session

Reach out to Shannon