Modern Solutions Therapy
Connect | Heal | Thrive
At Modern Solutions Therapy, I help adults heal from childhood trauma and Complex PTSD and understand how those experiences continue to shape their lives today. If you've spent years feeling like you have to stay on high alert, put everyone else first, hide who you really are, or wonder why everyday life feels so overwhelming, you're not alone. Together, we'll make sense of the ways your mind and body learned to survive, while helping you feel safer, more connected to yourself, and more in control of your emotions. My approach combines an understanding of how the nervous system responds to trauma with practical, evidence-based therapies that help heal old wounds, change deeply rooted patterns, and reconnect you with the parts of yourself that may have been lost along the way. The goal isn't to become a different person—it's to help you feel more like yourself again.
Who I work with You might have spent so much of your life surviving that you're not even sure who you are underneath it all. Many of my clients are adults who grew up in environments where they had to be the "good one," the caregiver, the peacekeeper, or the person who never asked for too much. They often struggle with people-pleasing, perfectionism, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, difficulty trusting themselves, relationship challenges, or feeling stuck in the same painful patterns despite trying everything to change. I work especially well with people healing from Complex PTSD, childhood trauma, attachment wounds, and the lasting effects of growing up without feeling consistently safe, seen, or understood. Many of my clients are also neurodivergent, highly sensitive, or discovering that their nervous system has been in survival mode for much longer than they realized. Whether you're trying to understand why you react the way you do, reconnect with who you are, or finally heal the wounds that have shaped your life, therapy can be a place where healing feels possible—not because you need to become someone new, but because you deserve the chance to become more fully yourself.
How Therapy Can Help Therapy can be a space to slow things down and begin to understand what has been happening inside of you, especially when life has felt overwhelming, confusing, or hard to explain. In our work together, we may explore how past trauma and childhood experiences have shaped your current patterns—how your nervous system learned to respond to stress, relationships, and emotion, and why certain triggers feel so intense or automatic. We may also work with emotional regulation, boundaries, self-trust, shame, burnout, relationship patterns, and the parts of you that developed to help you cope and survive. Using a trauma-informed, integrative approach, we can gently support healing at both the emotional and nervous system level. This might include understanding protective patterns, processing painful experiences, and reconnecting with the parts of you that have felt distant, hidden, or overwhelmed. This is not about fixing who you are. It is about making sense of your experiences, supporting your system to feel safer over time, and helping you build a life that feels more grounded, connected, and authentically yours.
Therapy for Complex PTSD Complex PTSD can feel like living with emotional patterns that don’t always make sense in the present — strong reactions, numbness, anxiety, self-doubt, or feeling overwhelmed by things that others seem to handle with ease. It can also show up as difficulty trusting yourself, staying present in relationships, or feeling safe in your own body and emotions. Therapy cannot erase what you’ve been through, but it can help you understand how those experiences are still living in your nervous system and shaping your thoughts, emotions, and relationships today. Together, we can gently explore your patterns, reduce shame, and begin to make sense of the ways your system learned to protect you. In our work, we may focus on building safety in your nervous system, increasing emotional regulation, understanding triggers, working with protective parts of you, and processing past experiences at a pace that feels manageable. We also explore identity—who you are underneath survival strategies—and support you in reconnecting with yourself in a way that feels more grounded, present, and authentic.
Therapy for Neurodivergent Folks Many neurodivergent people spend years being described as capable, intelligent, creative, or “high functioning,” while privately feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, overstimulated, emotionally flooded, or disconnected from themselves. You may have learned to mask your needs, push through burnout, people-please, overthink everything, or shut down when things become too much. You may also carry a lot of shame from being told — directly or indirectly — that you were too sensitive, too much, not trying hard enough, or somehow failing at things that others seemed to manage with ease. Neurodivergent-affirming therapy is not about changing who you are or making you fit into systems that don’t work for you. It is about understanding how your brain and nervous system respond to the world, reducing internalized shame, and learning to support your needs in a way that feels sustainable. Together, we can explore patterns of burnout, emotional overwhelm, sensory sensitivity, and identity confusion, while helping you build a life that feels more regulated, supported, and aligned with who you are.
Therapy for Complex PTSD Complex PTSD is not only about what happened to you — it’s also about how your nervous system learned to adapt in order to survive ongoing or repeated emotional stress, neglect, or unsafe relationships. You may notice CPTSD showing up as anxiety, emotional overwhelm, shutdown, perfectionism, people-pleasing, difficulty trusting yourself or others, feeling constantly on edge, dissociation, shame, anger, or a sense that you are always bracing for something to go wrong. In CPTSD-informed therapy, we move slowly and with care. We work at the pace your nervous system can tolerate, paying attention to your protective patterns and the parts of you that developed to keep you safe in overwhelming environments. Rather than rushing into painful memories, we focus first on building safety, stability, and self-understanding so that healing can happen in a way that feels manageable and sustainable.
Initial Consultation
(15-minute intake session):
$0
Individual Psychotherapy Session
(50-minute session for one person):
$185.00
Couples Psychotherapy
(80-minute session for two or more people):
$225.00
Family Psychotherapy
(90-minute session for two or more people):
$300.00
My current session hours are Monday - Friday, between 7:00am - 4:00pm EST.
Payment Options: I offer convenient payment options to ensure a seamless experience:
- Credit Card.
- Electronic Transfer.
Insurance: Not directly, the invoice you receive after sessions can be submitted to your insurance for reimbursement.
Hi, I’m Shannon!
I’m a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) who supports adults healing from Complex PTSD, childhood trauma, attachment wounds, neurodivergence, emotional overwhelm, and the often confusing process of trying to feel like yourself again.
My approach is warm, collaborative, trauma-informed, and neurodivergent-affirming. I believe therapy should be a place where you don’t have to perform, explain yourself perfectly, or make your experiences more “acceptable” in order to be understood.
In our work together, I integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS), DBT skills, somatic and nervous-system-informed approaches, attachment-based therapy, and practical tools for emotional regulation. I’m especially interested in helping you understand the patterns that developed for a reason, while also supporting you in building new ways of relating to yourself, your emotions, and your relationships that feel more grounded, sustainable, and aligned with who you are.
