Bobbie Harte Shaw, MS MFT

My work centers around connection and helping clients (re)connect with themselves and each other. I’m passionate about grief, embodiment, self-compassion, healthy sexuality, emotional intelligence, and valuing every stage of the lifespan.

We are not so much humans who have relationships as we are relational beings.

We are not so much a part of nature as we are nature.

The therapy I practice goes by various names: body-centered psychotherapy, somatic therapy, depth therapy, insight therapy, relational therapy. It all means that I work holistically, that I don’t treat symptoms or diagnoses; I treat people. My commitment is to working relationally and collaboratively with the whole person in front of me, to the depth that each person is ready to explore. I believe in each client’s innate capacity to heal and thrive.

My commitment is also to “walking the talk,” flawed human though I am; to cultivating my relational skills, exploring and integrating my shadow and wounded younger parts, and practicing radical self-acceptance.

For many years I was a portrait photographer, and I discovered through that experience that seeing could be a spiritual and healing experience, both for the one-who-is-seeing and the one-who-is-being-seen. I bring that heart-centered way of seeing into my therapy practice, meeting clients where each one is at in their journey, working as a mirror, guide, teacher, ally. Every client is a gift. This work is a gift.