Hello! I'm Shannan
Why ‘women in midlife’ support? Because we get forgotten. We’ve often spent a lifetime serving others and losing ourselves. Midlife ushers in the third-act season where we come home to ourselves.
I’ve lived many lives in this one body, and here are the major upheavals I’ve gone through that YOU can benefit from: divorce, blended family living, religious deconstruction & cult survival, launching four children, menopause, and now retirement, etc. All of this has given me the ability to translate my lived experiences into effective, meaningful therapy for women in midlife. So if you need support through your BIG upheavals, let’s get started.
My Background
I was raised in a home shaped by alcoholism and divorce. I learned very early on to read the emotional weather, make myself small to keep the peace, and stay under the radar. From the time I was 17 until my late 40s, I stayed committed to a high-control religion and marriage that, in time, was just no longer healthy for me.
Walking away wasn’t impulsive at all. It was the slow, sacred work of truth-telling: Can I keep doing this for the rest of my life? And if I do, what story will my children inherit about love, faith, and self-worth?
The answer asked me to choose authenticity over approval. To leave what was familiar but was 100% a slow death. This is where I can help you. You don’t have to suffer, resign yourself, and not know yourself.
I can help you embark on the lifelong work of coming home to yourself – maybe for the first time.
I’m willing to share with you how I’m still unlearning things too, and am slowly reclaiming myself through a thousand tiny, courageous choices.
The harsh reality is no one is rescuing us. We have to became the one we needed. I will help you through the messiness of what’s real, in witnessing beauty and pain, in choosing self-presence even when it breaks you open. That, to me, is sacred.

