Shannon Ferry-Branaugh (she/her)

The majority of clients I have worked with in my career have had some type of anxiety. I specifically see individuals struggling with somatic symptoms of anxiety, panic disorder and panic attacks, generalized anxiety, anxiety in the context of trauma, social anxiety, and performance anxiety. I approach anxiety with an integrative approach that honors the client's innate wisdom about themselves and their bodies and helps them connect to adaptive and flexible coping skills.

I believe trauma is a complex experience and thus warrants an individualized approach. I have specialized training in childhood trauma, attachment trauma, complex trauma, intimate partner violence, dissociation, and intergenerational trauma. I am an EMDR-certified therapist and sometimes use this modality for trauma treatment. I am also trained in trauma-focused CBT for child survivors of trauma. I also incorporate other trauma-informed interventions based on the needs of the client.

I offer outpatient eating disorder therapy for children, teens, and adults and their families. For children and adolescents, I utilize family-based therapy as well as other treatment approaches to support the client and their family in eating disorder recovery. For all prospective eating disorder clients, I conduct a level-of-care assessment (unless provided by another qualified program/clinician) to identify the level of eating disorder treatment needed. Please contact me for more information.

I utilize narrative therapy frequently with clients because I believe it can be incredibly helpful in clarifying values, identity, and needs, challenging past unhelpful or hurtful narratives, and establishing our stories in an authentic, empowered, and wholehearted manner. Narrative therapy invites clients to imagine realities that are not confined by extrinsic expectations or internalized unhelpful thinking patterns or beliefs.

All therapy I conduct, regardless of the reason a client comes to work with me, is trauma-informed and responsive. I utilize this lens because, in my professional and lived experience, it is very rare to find someone who has never experienced some form of trauma. This does not mean that I treat every client identically, but more means that I always remember the impact that trauma can have on all facets of a person. Some trauma-focused approaches I use include trauma-focused CBT, EMDR, and IFS.

EMDR is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy. EMDR is a trauma-focused therapy that helps individuals reduce the emotional charge of a traumatic memory, thus reducing the somatic and psychological impact the trauma has on the individual. While this modality can be very phase-based and structured, I frequently teach coping skills and approaches that are common within all phases of EMDR with clients, even if they are not engaging in trauma reprocessing.