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The part of this work I keep coming back to is connection.
I am drawn to people who feel isolated inside relationships that look, from the outside, as though they are working.
Shannon Cuthbert-Yates (she/her) · Nyack, New York
In her own words
I am a provisional mental health counselor seeing New York based clients remotely while under supervision as part of Maverick Psychotherapy Group. I work with individuals and couples, using a warm, relational approach that focuses on depth work and insight, so that people can build deeper intimacy and more meaningful connectedness in their relationships with others.
I am drawn to helping those struggling with connection and isolation in their relationships with others.
How I work
Warm, relational, and interested in what is underneath.
In practice that means I am less interested in fixing a symptom quickly than in understanding what it is doing for you. We pay attention to patterns, to attachment, to what happens between us in the room, and to the feelings that arrive before the explanation does.
It is a slower way of working, and it suits some people better than others. People who come to me have often already tried managing the surface and found that the thing underneath is still there.
I work with adults individually, and with couples. The attention is the same in both.
Training and professional context
The formal part.
- Education
- M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, SUNY New Paltz, 2026
- Licensure
- Mental Health Counselor practicing on a New York State Limited Permit. Not yet independently licensed; full LMHC licensure is in progress.
- Supervision
- Sascha Woolfe, LMHC
- Practice
- Maverick Psychotherapy Group, which is where sessions are provided and where booking runs
- Memberships
- American Counseling Association · New York Mental Health Counselors Association
- Sessions
- Telehealth, for clients located anywhere in New York State
- Based
- Nyack, New York, in the Hudson Valley
Most of this happens in ordinary sentences, said slowly.
If any of this sounds like the kind of attention you have been looking for.
A consultation is a conversation about what has been going on and whether this way of working suits you. Nothing has to be worked out first.