📍 Pennsylvania: Shannon Ruane, M.S., CRC, LPC – Philadelphia
Contact her directly
via phone, email, or her contact form.
100 South Broad Street, Suite 1309
Philadelphia, PA 19110
📞 Call or text: 215-244-0845
✉️ Email: shannon@ruanecounseling.com
Appointments are required.
Meet Shannon Ruane
Are You Looking for Therapy That Understands Your Experiences and Communication Needs?
You may be dealing with trauma, anxiety, grief, relationship difficulties, or a major life transition. Finding a therapist who can understand the complexity of your experience and communicate with you directly can make an important difference.
Shannon Ruane provides personalized, trauma-informed psychotherapy in spoken English and American Sign Language.
Shannon is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, Certified Hypnotherapist, and EMDRIA-Certified EMDR Therapist with more than 24 years of clinical experience.
She works with individuals, couples, and families using an approach that is culturally responsive and focused on developing insight, practical coping skills, emotional resilience, and healthier relationships.
Areas of Specialization
Shannon provides individualized assistance for concerns involving:
- Trauma and post-traumatic stress
- Depression and anxiety
- Fears and phobias
- Relationship and family concerns
- Hearing and communication differences
- Rehabilitation following illness or injury
- Serious mental-health conditions
- Grief and loss
- Stress management
- Life transitions
- Narcissistic abuse and gaslighting
- Concerning sexual behaviors
- Emotional and behavioral patterns
- Personal growth and self-awareness
Why Might You Choose Shannon Ruane in Philadelphia?
If you want hypnosis from a licensed mental-health professional, Shannon Ruane offers hypnotherapy within a broader counseling practice informed by more than 24 years of clinical experience.
Shannon is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, Certified Hypnotherapist, and EMDR-certified therapist. Her background may be especially valuable when the habit or concern you want to change overlaps with trauma, anxiety, depression, disability, communication needs, or a complex mental-health condition.
How You May Benefit
Your work with Shannon may help you:
- Identify thoughts, emotions, and subconscious patterns influencing your behavior
- Reduce stress and develop healthier coping responses
- Address anxiety, fears, or phobias
- Process trauma through an appropriately structured treatment plan
- Strengthen confidence and independence
- Break an unwanted habit
- Learn relaxation or self-hypnosis techniques
- Coordinate hypnosis with counseling when clinically appropriate
Licensed Counseling and Hypnotherapy
Unlike a practitioner whose services are limited to nonclinical hypnosis, Shannon can evaluate whether your concern may benefit from psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, or a combination of approaches within her professional scope.
Accessible Counseling in American Sign Language
If you are Deaf or hard of hearing, Shannon’s fluency in American Sign Language allows you to communicate directly with your therapist.
Her rehabilitation background also informs her understanding of disability-related stress, accessibility barriers, identity, independence, family communication, and relationships between Deaf and hearing family members.
A Personalized Treatment Approach
Depending on your needs and treatment plan, Shannon may incorporate psychotherapy, EMDR, cognitive and behavioral approaches, DBT skills, rehabilitation counseling, couples or family therapy, and hypnotherapy.
Hypnotherapy is offered as part of her broader clinical practice and may help you explore patterns, practice 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 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.
Take the First Step
Shannon offers in-person appointments in Center City Philadelphia and online therapy when appropriate. Review her website and professional biography to learn more about her approach, then contact her directly to discuss your goals, accessibility needs, availability, fees, insurance participation, and online eligibility.
Shannon Ruane Counseling, LLC is independently owned and operated. Shannon Ruane is not an employee, agent, or representative of 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.
