Jeanie Shade , LCSW

Jeanie Shade is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who brings eight years of licensed practice and additional years of community service to her work with adults and adolescents. Much of her clinical experience has been in hospital settings supporting people with severe mental health challenges, where she witnessed how powerful it can be for someone to tell their story, be truly heard, and reconnect with their own strengths.

She enjoys teaching practical wellness skills and has spent two years leading a community group at a local library, creating opportunities for people to learn and practice mental health strategies. Her work focuses on building skills that apply across many life situations, whether someone is coping with stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, depression, trauma, parenting challenges, or major life changes.

Jeanie’s counseling style centers on presence and attentive listening. She seeks to understand what each person wants to learn or resolve and offers guidance, insight, and concrete tools in response. She introduces foundational practices such as mindfulness, leaning into and noticing emotions, grounding and centeredness, self-compassion, and the distinction between surviving and thriving skills while exploring the beliefs that shape life stories.

In addition to her LCSW, Jeanie is a Certified Emotion Code Practitioner (CECP). The Emotion Code is an energy-based approach aimed at identifying and releasing trapped emotions, and she can integrate that work with traditional talk therapy or offer it separately depending on a client’s needs. She is committed to joining people on a thoughtful, skill-focused path toward greater well-being.