Shannon Maguire - Background & Approach

Shannon has worked in private practice as a psychotherapist and counsellor for over 18 years. She also has over 30 years experience in medical and mental health, community organizations, women’s services and hospitals and has worked extensively in the areas of:

Shannon provides counselling and therapy for individuals and clinical supervision for individuals and organisations.

She also specialises in relationship counselling and therapy for same-sex couples and heterosexual couples as well as for other important relationships such as friends, relatives, children and colleagues.

Shannon draws on the therapeutic models of Gestalt Therapy, Bowen Systems Therapy, Client-Centred Counselling, Process Oriented Psychology, Jungian Psychology, Narrative Therapy, NLP and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, as well as Neuroscience, Attachment Theory, Differentiation Theory, Communication Theory, Psychodynamic Theory and Post-Structuralist Theory to provide a dynamic, holistic and integrated approach to individual and relationship counselling and therapy.

Her intention is for therapy to be a positive, respectful, compassionate and empowering experience.

Approaching therapy as a dynamic and creative process, Shannon engages methods such as dialogue, active imagination, creative writing, dream work, symbolic representation, art, reading, body awareness and movement to engage both the conscious and unconscious in a transformative and life changing experience.