Shannon Stearns
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
26 yrs experience
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About
Shannon Stearns is a California-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works from a trauma- and attachment-informed, neurobiological perspective with individuals, couples, and families. She specializes in complex trauma, relationship rupture and repair, mutual and self-regulation, addiction recovery, multicultural identities, and parent-child/family systems work, and is LGBTQ- and polyamory/ENM-allied. She holds master's degrees in counseling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and additional graduate study at the California Institute of Integral Studies and The New School, with a thesis focused on working with couples with unresolved trauma.
Services
- Complex trauma
- Couples therapy
- Relationship rupture and repair
- Addiction recovery
- Multicultural identities
- Parent-child and family systems
- Trauma/PTSD
- Relationship issues
- Infidelity
- Addiction
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Personality disorders
- Grief
- Life transitions
- LGBTQ+ concerns
- Polyamory/consensual non-monogamy
- ADHD
- OCD
- Spiritual identity concerns
- Attachment-based
- DBT
- Trauma-focused
- Gottman Method
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- Family systems
- Motivational interviewing
- Emotionally Focused Therapy
- Interpersonal neurobiology
State licenses
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California · License #120162 · Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) Active
expires 2028-07-31
Reputation
- Yelp 17 reviews
- Birdeye 10 reviews
Sources
The facts on this page are drawn from 9 public sources and independently fact-checked before publication.
Psychology Today directory
- Full name, credential (MFT), self-reported license number 120162, Mount Shasta CA location, phone, specialties, issues treated, modalities, populations, insurance, fees, 26 years in practice, education history, profile photo (psychologytoday.com)
NPPES NPI registry
- NPI 1801921424, taxonomy Marriage & Family Therapist (106H00000X), active status, enumeration date Feb 22 2007, San Francisco address (npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov)
provider website
- Bio, specialties, modalities, degrees (Pacifica Graduate Institute, CIIS, The New School), online session format, ~15-25 years of clinical experience across multiple states before CA independent practice (shannonstearns.com)
provider website (services page)
- Issues treated (ADHD, OCD, PTSD, depression, grief, spiritual identity), online-only session format language, 'over 15 years of experience' claim (shannonstearns.com)
provider website (contact page)
- No public phone or email listed; contact via web form only (shannonstearns.com)
group practice website (The San Francisco Marriage and Couples Center)
- Practice affiliation, San Francisco office address and phone, bio, headshot photo (sanfranciscomarriagecenter.com)
group practice website (therapist roster)
- Listed as one of the center's MFT therapists (sanfranciscomarriagecenter.com)
Yelp
- The San Francisco Marriage and Couples Center (practice-level, not individual-therapist) has 17 reviews (yelp.com)
Birdeye
- The San Francisco Marriage and Couples Center (practice-level, not individual-therapist) has 10 reviews (reviews.birdeye.com)