About the Author

Shannon K. Spellman, M.S.W. is an author and a psychotherapist in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona. She has written and recorded relaxation and guided imagery audio CDs and various self-help booklets for specific populations. For additional information, visit the hiding star store

As a master's level therapist with over 28 years of clinical experience, her practice areas include stress management, couples' issues personal growth, addictions, codependency, and recovery issues, interventions, grief work, difficult adolescents and challenging family systems, incest and sexual abuse issues, PTSD, eating disorders, and adolescent life-cycle issues.

She provides individual, couples', family, and group therapy, provides interventions, offers Seminars on various topics including stress management, and facilitates occasional Weekend Intensive Workshops and Retreats for specific client populations. In addition to her professional qualifications, Shannon is also highly committed to her own recovery and personal growth.

As an author, and as a therapist and facilitator, she gently and appropriately blends together her personal experience and professional skill in a nurturing manner that allows others to safely heal and move forward in their lives. Shannon divides her leisure time between the desert and the mountains and enjoys Spiritual pursuit, hiking, dancing, camping and trail riding with her horse, Desiree', and playing with her dog, She-Ra.

Shannon also offers presentations and facilitates training workshops for other therapists on various topics, including working with incest/sexual abuse survivors, and working with challenging oppositional and delinquent adolescents in outpatient settings. She utilizes a down to earth yet professional style, in both her therapy practice and her training, that allows the participants to feel comfortable and relaxed. As an author she maintains this same style in a manner that helps the reader/listener to identify and challenge their own ineffective coping techniques while building new skills and strengthening the resources they already possess.

For additional information regarding the author's credentials and her solo psychotherapy practice, visit her professional website.