About Shannan Blum, LMFT | Retiring Therapist
Hey. I’m Shannan – and I’ve been a therapist and healer since 1992. Due to a major change in my family circumstances, I’m choosing to retire and close down my clinical practice.
I’ve survived growing up with alcoholic parents. Divorce. Blended family chaos. Religious deconstruction and getting out of a cult. Launching four kids into the world. Menopause. And now, a whole new chapter that I genuinely didn’t see coming – one that feels more like myself than anything before it.
I’m not sharing this to impress you. I’m sharing it because these experiences alongside my professional training informs the client-ready material I’m making available.
If you’re a person invested in your own healing – you can purchase the materials directly.
If you’re a clinician and would like exercises for client support, homework, or session material you can purchase PLR bundles, rebrand it to your brand, and use it as you like with clients.
While my focus won’t be on client care any longer, I am finding this is a beautiful way to “pass it along” to those still engaged in the deep work.
In Health & Wholeness,
Shannan
My Background & Credentials
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with decades of clinical experience. I’m licensed in:
Indiana — License #35002472A
California — License #86791
Texas — License #203219
My clinical training spans somatic psychotherapy, trauma therapy, DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), inner child and parts-based work, Jungian depth psychology, and eating disorder treatment. I’ve done clinical training, speaking engagements, and professional consultations across all of these areas.
I also use Tarot as a therapeutic projective tool, listed on the Intuitive Clinicians Council Directory, as well as with Pagan Affirming Therapy & Healthcare – because I believe healing doesn’t have to stay inside conventional lines to be rigorous and real.
My Approach: Integrated, Embodied, and Honest
I call my way of working an “Integrated Clinical Framework” – which just means I refuse to choose between evidence-based and soulful. I blend:
- Regular talk therapy tools – CBT, DBT distress tolerance skills, trauma-processing techniques.
- Somatic and body-based approaches – because your nervous system holds your history, and insight alone won’t update it.
- Jungian depth work – archetypes w/Tarot, shadow work, and the kind of meaning-making that helps midlife make sense.
- Non-religious spiritual practices – nature-based frameworks, seasonal cycles, intuition work.
No dogma. No doctrine. I’m not going to tell you to just reframe your thoughts or promise you spiritual bypassing dressed up as healing.
What I will do is meet you where you are, tell you what I actually see, and help you do the work that creates real change – not just better coping.
A Note About My Approach to Healing
For me, healing isn’t about becoming the best version of yourself. It’s not a destination. It’s not a box you check.
Healing is a lifelong process of choosing self-presence – even when it’s uncomfortable, even when it breaks things open, even when it means disappointing people who preferred the version of you that didn’t ask for anything.
My mess is my message. I haven’t arrived. I’m doing this alongside you, in my own life, in real time. That’s not a liability. It’s the thing that makes this work actually work.
