LPCC-S, EMDR Certified, RYT200, EMBER trained

Shayla believes in co-creating the therapy experience and firmly believes that clients are the experts in their experiences, and her role is to offer support, acceptance, exploration, and tools that may be helpful while healing. She is a level 200 Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT). Being trained in yoga, she recognizes that the impacts of mental health can appear within ones’ body making important to her to have a holistic picture of her clients and she intentionally uses skills to gain more awareness of ones embodied experience in sessions.

She has experience working with a variety of age groups and presenting concerns. Shayla has spent some of her career working with undergraduate and graduate students at The Ohio State University and Ohio Wesleyan University. She has a passion for the process of identity formation and exploring ones’ life path that can occur in a person’s 20s and beyond. Shayla believes that an individual can change and grow at any point in their lifespan. She also has a passion for working with LGBTQIA+ individuals, especially those who are trans and nonbinary. She was trained as a generalist and has worked with a variety of presenting concerns including depression, anxiety, relationship concerns, and more. She uses a person-centered approach taking into account a client’s cultural background and societal pressures or oppression.

Shayla often works with people experiencing trauma and has intentionally focused her learning on recovery from trauma. She recognizes that trauma can appear in a variety of forms and significantly impact ones’ life, whether its origin is rooted ongoing early life experiences or one event. She is trained in evidenced-based trauma treatments including Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Prolonged Exposure (PE).

She received her Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from The Ohio State University in 2016. . She is also certified in EMBER (embodied mindfulness based emotional resiliency) yoga.

In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her dog, cycling, hiking, practicing yoga and reading a good book.

Contact Shayla to schedule.