Dr. Shir Shanun

Psychologist PSY25481

I am a licensed clinical psychologist working with individuals, couples and poly-relationships. Co-creating a new relational experiences of connection and intimacy with greater awareness of different self states. Dreaming new possibilities together. We will focus on elaboration of meaning and opening of new worlds as Together we will explore connecting with our feelings, struggles with freedom and trust, unlived spaces and existential dreads as well as hopes and dreams.

My specialties include working with trauma, developmental trauma and complex trauma, abuse and sexual assault, addiction and recovery, safety, self harm and severe and persistent mental illness including Depression, Anxiety, Mood and Bipolar, Psychosis and Personality disorders, Dissociation, Compulsions, Eating Disorders, Loss, Safety, Gender, Sexuality, infidelity, polyamory and kink.

I am LGBTQAI+ affirmative and dedicated to providing a safe and accepting space. I work with Young Adults, Adults and Older Adults, Couples and Complex relationships such as Polyamory. I am fluent in English and Hebrew.

Treatment modalities: Psychodynamic-Psychoanalytic Relational, Phenomenological Contextualism, Relational Self Psychology, Post-Bionian Analytic Field Theory, Relational Interpersonal and Existential.


Professional affiliation: American Psychological Association (APA). International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP). International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSS). APA division 39 and the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA).

Candidate at The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP-LA), LA. Studies at the Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addictions from a relational perspective program at the William Alanson White Institute (WAWI), NY.

INSPIRATION

... dreaming his own experience, thereby dreaming himself more fully into existence
— Thomas Ogden
We see ourselves through our analyst’s eyes, hear ourselves through our analysts ears
— Donnel Stern

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