Pamela Shaw AMFT

You are welcome here exactly as you are. My goal is to create a warm, compassionate, and nonjudgemental space where you feel safe to explore who you are, what you desire, and the obstacles that might be standing in your way.

I recognize everyone’s needs are unique, so I tailor my therapeutic approach to each individual or couple. My practice integrates humanistic, person-centered, and existential therapy, working with somatic techniques, psychodynamic approaches, and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help clients develop insight and create meaningful change. Together, we can navigate challenges like repairing relationships, managing life transitions, processing trauma, finding clarity around identity, boundaries, and emotional needs, and exploring circumstances, patterns of behavior, thoughts, or beliefs contributing to anxiety or depression.

I am passionate about empowering clients to embrace their authentic selves, cultivate healthy boundaries, and rewrite the stories that hold them back from meaningful connections. Whether you’re exploring emotional intimacy or sexuality, rediscovering delicious pleasure or addressing sexual shame, strengthening your sense of self-reliance or noticing cycles of codependency, struggling to accept changes in your life, or feeling disconnected from your body, your desires, or your partner, I provide a supportive, genuine, open-minded space to navigate these experiences with care, respect, and a bit of playfulness, and creativity!

Intimacy, as I see it, goes beyond the physical—it’s about vulnerability, understanding, and respect for yourself and others. I welcome clients of all ages, identities, genders, backgrounds, and lifestyles to join me in fostering deeper self-compassion, healthier relationships, and a more fulfilling sense of intimacy and connection with ourselves, our partners, friends, family, and community.

Specialties: Populations: Couples, Individuals (adults, older adults, young adults, teens 12+) LGBTQIA+, Kink, Poly lifestyles.

Issues: Intimacy, Relationships, Sexuality, Codependency, Self-esteem, Relational issues, Life transitions, Self-exploration, Grief & Bereavement, Personal Growth, Gender Identity, Neurodiversity, Anxiety, Attachment Trauma, Stress Management, Depression.

Modalities: Person-centered/Humanistic Therapy, Existential, Gestalt, EFT- Emotionally Focused Therapy, Somatic Psychotherapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Feminist Therapies, Mindfulness techniques, and meditation.