Linda Blanco
Kenneth H. Bryant
Laurie Cestnick
Shannon Cothran
Michael G. Hehir
Elisabeth (Beth) Lembo
Shannon J. McNamara
Judit Price
Marla Stone
James N. Stone
Robert (Buck) A. Weaver
Linnea Weaver
Monika E. Wilkinson
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Shannon J. McNamara , MSW, LICSW
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Shannon McNamara is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with a Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work from Simmons College. Ms. McNamara specializes in work with adolescent girls with a variety of difficulties including adjustment, anxiety, learning and self-esteem issues, attachment, peer and parental relationships, issues of divorce and grief, and life coaching. She provides both individual and group therapy to clients.
Ms. McNamara grew up in a small, rural community in western New Hampshire. She moved to Boston, Massachusetts for college at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she received a dual degree in Psychology and Music. She studied operatic voice in Florence, Italy and has traveled extensively in Western Europe and the continental United States.
During her time at Simmons School of Social Work, Ms. McNamara interned at The Carroll School in Lincoln, MA, where she worked with middle school students and ran several adolescent girls groups. She also interned at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, working on the bone marrow transplant unit and running a caregivers’ support group for families of bone marrow transplant patients.
Ms. McNamara's therapeutic orientation is holistic and client-centered. Ms. McNamara applies many therapeutic techniques, based on client needs, including psychodynamic, play and art therapy, Cognitive Behavioral techniques, and Gestalt therapy. She has systems knowledge and personal experience of what it is like to be challengesd with reading and math learning differences. She fosters a positive sense-of-self in her clients, encouraging them to take advantage of every opportunity that life provides, and to see the value that they bring to the world.
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