About Me

I deeply trust the power of the healing journey. The heart and soul of my work is helping humans reconnect with ourselves, each other, our intuition, our bodies and the more than human natural world so we can live powerfully and whole, in deeply mutually supportive relationship with all to enable the individual and collective healing we and all earth is yearning for.

I am an LCSW with decades of experience working with individuals and groups of diverse identities, ages and life stories in a wide array of settings including personal and professional coaching, therapy, consulting, directing programs in community based organizations, teaching, event planning, ritual creation, transformative decluttering and more. I’ve engaged in an abundance of other work including board leadership, coordinating community building events and projects large and small and deep canvassing across the United States.

My formal education includes an MSW from Hunter College and a BA in Social Thought and Political Economy from the University of Massachusetts, with internship in Central America. I am ever engaging in professional, academic and experiential learning to grow the depth and breadth of my work including IFS (Internal Family Systems), somatic healing practices, nature-based healing, and more.

My informal education has been vast and varied with countless teachers, mentors, and healers of all ages and backgrounds. I have learned as much from those I have taught and counseled as from those who have taught and counseled me. Among the many humans who have inspired and awakened me are Robin Wall Kimmerer, Asia Suler, Resma Menakeem and Gloria Steinem.

Transforming and healing the impact of all oppressions and systems causing harm is integral to my practice. I help people see and embody their power to make change inside and out.

All of my work is rooted in my own lived experience of healing, learning and emerging. I have lived through deeply painful experiences and the full range of emotions that come along with them including feelings of aloneness, heartache and self-doubt. Choosing to walk through and beyond my personal and ancestral history with all of its scars and gifts, I have experienced a potent world of opening, loving and living and transforming beyond my imaginings. I passionate about guiding others to trust and follow their own paths to healing transformation and live beyond their wildest imaginings.

Among my many and ever evolving passions are connecting with humans, trees, wildflowers, sheep, travel, abundant laughter and lots of chocolate.

I warmly welcome you to reach out and see if we are the right match and if we are, I would be honored to support you on your healing and living journey!

“Shira lives life from a place of wondering what makes each person shine bright. She holds compassionate space while asking meaningful questions which always has me step deeper into understanding myself.”

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Let’s explore if we’re a match to work together!

 

Be with uncertainty. Dream. Imagine. When nothing is known, Anything is possible. ― Rabbi Yael Levy