Shalisa Gunn, Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern

Shalisa (she/her) is a Registered Mental Health Counseling Intern. Her philosophy on therapy is that you must be willing to do the work of the past in order to tend with that of the present and prepare for the future.

She loves incorporating storytelling into her sessions whether that’s through expressive arts or fiction writing/poetry/journaling. She enjoys creative expression in all forms, but she understands that that is not for everybody so she works to get to know you as a human first client second.

Change happens when you’re honest with yourself that something needs to move. It doesn’t happen overnight but it does require trust in yourself, to begin with. Change can be as little or as big as you want, but sustainable change is that which takes little moments and small doses of hard work to push the sheer force of an abominable snowman. That is to say, it takes time. Shalisa takes a humanistic, person-centered integrative approach to therapeutic models and doesn’t believe in pushing you too hard when you’re not ready as she also believes that when the client is ready, the client is ready. But if you decide to sit across from her, in the therapy chair, be prepared to be challenged and to sit with your emotions because change does not happen without effort.

When Shalisa is not with you, she is either reading or writing fiction novels.

Bring what you need into the space.

“No one is healed in isolation.” – bell hooks