📍 Pennsylvania: Shannon Ruane, M.S., CRC, LPC – Philadelphia
Contact directly:
100 South Broad Street, Suite 1309
Philadelphia, PA 19110
📞 Call or text: 215-244-0845
✉️ Email: shannon@ruanecounseling.com
Meet Shannon Ruane
Are you looking for an experienced trauma therapist and hypnotherapist in Philadelphia who offers services in both spoken English and American Sign Language?
Biography: Shannon Ruane is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, Certified Hypnotherapist, and EMDRIA-Certified EMDR Therapist. With more than 24 years of clinical experience, she provides individual, couples, and family psychotherapy through her private practice in Center City Philadelphia.
Shannon is fluent in American Sign Language, allowing her to work directly with Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, couples, families, and people affected by hearing or communication differences.
Her approach is personalized, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and grounded in helping clients develop insight, practical coping skills, emotional resilience, and healthier relationships.
Areas of Specialization
Shannon works with clients experiencing:
- Trauma and post-traumatic stress
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Fears and phobias
- Relationship and family concerns
- Hearing and communication differences
- Rehabilitation following illness or injury
- Schizophrenia and other serious mental-health conditions
- Bipolar disorder
- Personality disorders
- Grief and loss
- Stress management
- Life transitions
- Narcissistic abuse and gaslighting
- Maladaptive or concerning sexual behaviors
- Emotional and behavioral patterns
- Personal growth and self-awareness
Treatment is individualized according to the client’s needs, diagnosis, communication preferences, goals, and existing healthcare relationships.
Accessible Counseling in American Sign Language
Shannon’s fluency in American Sign Language provides an important option for Deaf and hard-of-hearing clients who want to communicate directly with their therapist.
Her background in rehabilitation psychology and counseling also informs her understanding of:
- Hearing and communication differences
- Disability-related stress
- Family communication
- Adjustment to injury or illness
- Identity and independence
- Accessibility barriers
- Relationships between Deaf and hearing family members
Clients should contact Shannon directly to discuss accessibility needs and communication preferences.
Therapeutic Approaches
Depending upon the client’s treatment plan, Shannon may incorporate:
- Trauma-focused psychotherapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Cognitive and behavioral approaches
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy principles
- Rehabilitation counseling
- Hypnotherapy
- Individual psychotherapy
- Couples counseling
- Family therapy
Hypnotherapy is offered within Shannon’s broader professional practice and may be used to help clients explore subconscious patterns, strengthen relaxation, address habits, and develop more supportive responses.
Education
Shannon’s academic background includes:
- Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Fairfield University
- Master of Science in Rehabilitation Psychology and Counseling, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Postgraduate coursework, George Washington University
- Multicultural ethics training, University of Hawaii
Licenses and Certifications
Shannon’s published credentials include:
- Licensed Professional Counselor
- Certified Rehabilitation Counselor
- Certified Hypnotherapist
- EMDRIA-Certified EMDR Therapist
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy training through Gallaudet University’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing Resilience Center
Advanced Professional Training
Shannon has completed additional training involving:
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Personality disorders
- Trauma treatment for maladaptive sexual behavior
- Narcissistic abuse and gaslighting
- Multicultural ethical issues in counseling
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy training led by Albert Ellis
Appointment Options
Shannon Ruane Counseling currently offers:
- Individual psychotherapy
- Couples psychotherapy
- Family psychotherapy
- Hypnotherapy
- In-person appointments in Center City Philadelphia
- Online therapy appointments
- American Sign Language services
Contact Shannon Ruane Counseling
📍 The Land Title Building
100 South Broad Street, Suite 1309
Philadelphia, PA 19110
📞 Call or text: 215-244-0845
✉️ Email: shannon@ruanecounseling.com
🌐 Website: RuaneCounseling.com
The office is conveniently located near Philadelphia City Hall, Midtown Village, and the Gayborhood.
Contact Shannon directly to confirm current availability, insurance participation, fees, accessibility needs, and online-therapy eligibility.
Independent-Practice Disclosure
Shannon Ruane Counseling, LLC is independently owned and operated. Shannon Ruane is not an employee, agent, or representative of Healthy Life Centers.
Recommended by Healthy Life Centers.
Healthy Life Centers recommends and refers prospective clients to independent practitioners but does not supervise or control their licensing, credentials, clinical services, fees, insurance participation, scheduling, therapeutic relationships, professional decisions, or results.
