EMDR Basic Training Membership
Shannon Cowan
Welcome! My name is Shannon and I help individuals and families navigate life’s challenges with compassionate, evidence-based approaches.As a Registered Clinical Counsellor, my practice integrates cognitive, behavioural and experiential strategies through a self-compassion lens. With a foundation in exposure-based therapies, I support children, youth and adults navigating anxiety/OCD and related disorders. Trained in Exposure and Response Prevention (ExRP) for OCD, I am additionally pursuing advanced certification in this area through the University of Pennsylvania’s Centre for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety. I am also trained in SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) to help families navigate childhood anxiety disorders and OCD by increasing supportive communication and reducing accommodations. Parenting children with anxiety/OCD can be physiologically activating. SPACE addresses this and other concerns to help both parents and children improve functioning.I offer EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) for trauma and as an adjunct therapy for panic, anxiety and phobias. For this method I employ visual or tactile bilateral stimulation to engage dual attention in reprocessing traumatic memories. Depending on the presentation, I can draw on parts work (Internal Family Systems) and somatic tools for safety and resourcing.With a background working with Indigenous communities and 2SLGBTQIA+ youth, I strive to bring creativity, cultural competence and humility to all our sessions.
910 Fern Road East , Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, Canada, V9K 1M3
Phone: 250 5947002
Email: shannon.cowan@islandclinicalcounselling.ca
Population Served:
Both Adults and Children & Adolescents
Languages:
English
How EMDR is Offered:
Both online and in-person
Areas of Expertise:
Anxiety
OCD
Panic Attacks
Phobias
Social Anxiety