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Shancy Kirmeyer, LCSW

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🧠 Trauma informed therapy • EMDR
🌱 Low-cost options available
⬇️ Accepting New Clients

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Hi! I’m Shancy, and I’m so happy you’re here! I specialize in supporting clients experiencing anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, life transitions, trauma, stress, and self-criticism. I believe our individual healing is deeply connected to the way we show up in our relationships, families, and communities. My hope is to create a space where you feel safe, understood, and supported as you work toward greater self-awareness, healing, and meaningful change.

Check out the link in the bio for how to book a free consultation!

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If you’re feeling overwhelmed, anxious, stuck, disconnected, or simply ready for something to change, therapy can be a space to slow down, make sense of what you’re experiencing, and reconnect with yourself.
My approach is warm, compassionate, and individualized. I believe you are the expert on your own story, and together we’ll create a space where you can feel heard without judgment and work toward the changes that matter most to you.
I draw from a range of therapeutic approaches, including CBT, humanistic, narrative, psychodynamic, solution-focused therapy, and EMDR; tailoring our work to what feels most helpful for you.
From our first session, my goal is for you to feel heard, understood, and empowered to take your next step. You don’t have to know exactly where to start. You just have to be willing to begin. 🌿

Check out the link in the bio how to book a free consultation!

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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a therapy approach used to help process distressing or traumatic experiences, including experiences connected to PTSD, anxiety, negative self-beliefs, and other overwhelming memories.
 •We’ll start by getting to know your history, identifying what you’d like to work on, and making sure you have coping tools in place..
•When you’re ready, we’ll focus on a specific memory, belief, or feeling while using bilateral stimulation, such as guided eye movements or alternating taps. •You don’t have to tell every detail of an experience or relive it exactly as it happened. The goal is to help your brain process what feels “stuck” so the memory has less emotional intensity and influence in the present.

If you’re wondering whether EMDR could be right for you, I’d love to help you explore it.

Check out the link in the bio how to book a free consultation!

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Sometimes, the strongest thing you can do is acknowledge how far you’ve come. 🤍

You’ve made it through days you weren’t sure you could handle, carried things others couldn’t see, and kept going even when it wasn’t easy.

Give yourself credit for the progress no one else witnessed. You don’t have to minimize what you’ve overcome just because others don’t know the full story.

You deserve to be proud of yourself, too.

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💭 That inner critic can be loud, but you don’t have to believe everything it tells you.
Self-criticism can impact your self-esteem, increase anxiety, and keep you from recognizing your growth. Learning to identify negative thought patterns and reframe them with a more balanced perspective is a powerful place to start. 🤍
You deserve to speak to yourself with the same compassion you offer others.

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It’s hard to feel like you’re doing enough when you’re constantly comparing your life to everyone else’s.

Maybe you’re wondering why you’re not further along, why things seem easier for everyone else, or why your version of success doesn’t look like what you thought it would.

Therapy can help you slow down and explore the expectations you’ve been carrying — including the ones you may have never questioned.

Together, you can begin to:
→ separate your own goals from outside expectations
→ understand where comparison and self-criticism come from
→ recognize growth that doesn’t always look productive from the outside
→ reconnect with what actually matters to you
→ make space for rest without seeing it as failure
→ redefine success in a way that feels meaningful to you

Growth isn’t always visible.

Sometimes growth is setting a boundary.
Sometimes it’s resting instead of pushing through.
Sometimes it’s choosing differently than you used to.
Sometimes it’s simply making it through a season that asked a lot of you.

You don’t have to be where someone else is to be making progress.

Therapy can help you stop measuring your life by someone else’s timeline — and start creating one that feels like your own. 🤍

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When your mind has been carrying too much for too long, even simple things can start to feel exhausting. You may have the desire to get things done, but feel stuck, scattered, or unable to figure out where to begin.

Therapy can help you slow things down and understand what’s underneath the overwhelm.
Together, you can:
→ identify what’s taking up so much mental space
→ recognize patterns that keep you feeling stuck
→ work through stress, anxiety, and emotional buildup
→ learn ways to regulate your nervous system
→ create more clarity around what actually needs your attention
→ develop healthier ways to respond when life feels like too much

You don’t have to wait until you’re completely burned out to ask for support.

Sometimes, the first step isn’t doing more.
It’s understanding why everything feels like so much. 🤍

Links in bio to schedule an appointment!

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Research widely considers the therapeutic relationship, also called the therapeutic alliance, to be the single strongest and most reliable predictor of positive outcomes in psychotherapy.

That relationship is built in moments like these:

When you show up imperfectly.

When you feel misunderstood, but keep trying until you feel understood.

When you’re afraid to say the hard thing out loud, but begin to trust your therapist enough to say it.

When you’ve been holding it all together for years and finally allow yourself to be vulnerable with someone.

When something your therapist says doesn’t sit right with you, and instead of staying quiet, you tell them.

When asking for help has always been hard, but you decide to reach out anyway.

Therapy doesn’t require you to show up perfectly. It asks you to show up honestly.

A strong therapeutic relationship can create space for you to feel heard, understood, challenged with care, and comfortable enough to explore the parts of yourself that may be difficult to share anywhere else.

Healing begins with feeling safe enough to be fully yourself. 🤍

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