Shana Averbach, LMFT, PMH-C
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist #50670
Providing individual therapy for anxiety, trauma recovery, and reproductive mental health across the lifespan to women, pregnant and postpartum people, and parents in San Francisco + California
Shana has a warm presence that makes you want to tell her anything and everything.
Whether you’ve been white knuckling it for some time or acutely have distress that exceeds your holding capacity and current coping mechanisms, having someone focus on you for a change, having someone to provide thought partnering, calming presence and tools can ease the pain and help bring you back to yourself. Shana will do just that and more.
You will want to work with Shana if you
have experienced a birth trauma,
are a high achieving woman who has already tried thinking your way through tough feelings,
are pregnant or planning to be and having a tough time,
are a woman or mama in tech (who may or may not still want to be),
have found yourself struggling through perimenopausal parenting,
are a secret sufferer who is ready to be seen,
and/or someone straddling multiple cultures
About:
Shana was born and raised in San Francisco, received her BA in Psychology from UCLA, where she gained useful research-based knowledge, an MS in Counseling from SFSU, where she was enveloped by a comprehensive spectrum of theory and practice, and gained clinical experience through community- clinic- and school-based work in the Bay Area before opening her private practice centered on supportIng the needs of women and parents.
She started walking the path towards helping others at a very young age. And like many in the helping professions, came to this work, in part, by way of her own experience working through issues of depression, anxiety, and not-good-enough-ness.
She has focused on girls’ and women’s mental health her whole career (led by the feminist stance she declared at age nine and then moving into learning and thinking through intersectional feminism and anti-oppression frameworks) and has been studying and tending to perinatal mental health ever since becoming a mom in 2014 (fun fact: She did her foundational training with PSI five months postpartum during baby’s 37-minute naps!). She loves supporting clients directly and mentoring the next generation of amazing therapists. Her skills have been enriched by additional training in Mindful Self-Compassion, EMDR, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), family systems work, and brief therapy.
In her spare time she loves reading (two books and one New Yorker at a time), hiking, and spending quality time with her people (talking about everything, belly laughing, and the occasional karaoke party).
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✓ In-person therapy for adults in San Francisco
✓ Virtual therapy for adults via telehealth
✗ Not accepting new individual clients (email for waitlist)
﹩250/50-minute session, 275/60-minute session
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In her words:
SOURCE of joy: Singing (loudly). Witnessing my kiddos play (quietly <—that’s a joke))
SOURCE of awe: A good starry night and all forms of nature.
SOURCE of energy: Deep connection with friends + quiet time alone.
Connect with Shana/Main Contact for SOURCE:
Email: hello@sourcepsychotherapy.com
Phone: 415-963-3546