Shannon fosters insight into persistent thoughts and feelings that may negatively impact your relationships with friends, partners, and co-workers. Cultivate self-compassion, secure attachment, and satisfaction in existing relationships. During relationship transitions (newly partnering, parenting, or separating), forge new ways of interacting by better understanding yourself and others.

Explore your uniqueness as a neurodiverse person with ADD/ADHD or on the autistic spectrum. Identify your unique superpowers and challenges, pursue your relational and professional goals, and gain new skills along the way.

Whether you’re wrapping up high school, tackling a new job, or easing into retirement some similar issues and opportunities emerge. What will your new identity be? How will this change affect your relationships? What will be the new demands and how will you manage them? The goal is to come through this transition feeling increased confidence and resilient for this stage in your life.

Foster healthy family relationships through a shared understanding of child/teen development and building effective parenting practices and communication skills. Topics may include: becoming a new parent, parenting styles, family transitions, children’s learning and neurodevelopmental differences, and family attachment patterns.

Learn ways to cope with anxiety, stress, sadness, and fatigue related to caring for (or losing) someone with acute or chronic illness. Identify skills and behaviors to cope with these stressors. Understand the changes in mood in the ill or aging person. Learn practical ways to balance your own needs and health with those of others.