https://doxy.me/shanleighbechardlpc

License: LPC

Practicing since: 2017

Sees: Young Adults, Adults, Couples, and Families

Treatment Specialties and Techniques: Shanleigh believes her clients know themselves better than anyone, and views therapy as a joint venture where knowledge and skills are combined to find solutions. She thinks a healthy and effective therapeutic relationship includes authenticity, trust, unconditional acceptance, and positive outcomes. She sees the client and therapist as “fellow travelers” on the journey towards self-realization (Yalom).
Shanleigh is experienced in attachment, trauma, interpersonal relationships, healthy living, and mind-body healing. Shanleigh is collaborative and flexible in her therapeutic approach and tailors therapy sessions for each individual client. She relies on evidence-based strategies to target deep healing through nervous system regulation, education, trauma processing, and lifestyle changes. She is trained and experienced in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, and family systems therapies. Shanleigh is also a certified yoga instructor, and works with her clients toward holistic healing in mind and body.

Training and Experience: Shanleigh studied Human Development, Family Studies, and Gender Studies at UW-Madison, and completed her graduate studies at UW-Whitewater, specializing in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy. She has clinical experience with a wide range of presenting issues across the lifespan including: life stressors, anxiety, depression and other mood disorders, trauma, personality disorders, chronic health conditions, emerging adulthood, interpersonal relationships, and more. Shanleigh is sex positive, LGBTQI+ friendly, kink/poly aware, and affirming of alternative lifestyles.