Shailyse Hawkins
under the supervision of Tia Jennings, LPC-S
Graduate Student Intern
Life has given you plenty of opportunity to be strong. It is time to give yourself permission to be supported. You’ve tried everything from the self-help books, tips from Instagram posts, listening to advice from your close circle, or even attempting to avoid it all with a drink or smoke. Yet, you still can’t seem to break the cycle. You find yourself anxious, depressed, confused, and frustrated about life. You question the past and fear for the future. You wonder who you are outside of all the heaviness.
In this moment, you have given yourself the present of a new beginning that aligns with your truest and most fulfilled self.
You’ve opened yourself up through self-awareness and resiliency to therapy. The therapeutic journey is tough work, but to be reading this sentence shows that you are ready to take on the challenge of healing. You are deserving of living a life on the other side of the storm. I want to support and challenge you on your journey of making it through.
Hi, I’m Shailyse, graduate student intern and your guide to change.
There are so many layers to the story of you. Every layer provides insight to the root causes of thinking and behavioral patterns that create challenges within your life. Fortunately, I am no stranger to the challenges or helping clients peel the layers back. My journey to becoming a therapist started with me doing exactly what you are in this moment- clicking through “About Me’s” in hopes of finding someone who could help me without judgment make sense of the chaos within my life. I’ve taken that personal thought with me into my work.
I use a holistic, humanistic, non-judgmental approach within the therapeutic journey by combining a variety of theories and techniques that best support your unique experience and background. Every person experiences this world differently, and our work together will be representative of that. I enjoy bringing optional methods such as astrology and human design into the therapeutic space. Although I have experience working with depression, anxiety, grief, self-esteem issues, and suicide, my specific area of interests are trauma and PTSD.