INTRODUCING DR. ERIN SHANNON
Dr. Erin Shannon is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology and an Energy Medicine Practitioner with 30 Degrees/ Certifications in Integrated Alternative Medicine Techniques for Deep Healing. She specializes in Sports Psychology for Professional Sports Organizations, Athletes, and their families.
A Summa Cum Laude graduate of both Loyola Marymount University and Pepperdine University, specializing in both traditional psychotherapy as well as cutting edge mind-body techniques and energy medicine. She offers multiple techniques to optimize performance, resolve chronic pain, speed injury recovery, resolve relational discord, unwanted habits, and patterns, medical-related stress, sleep issues/insomnia, negative thought patterns, life transitions, and imbalances.
Dr. Shannon is a goal-oriented, interactive, solution-focused therapist. Her therapeutic approach is to provide rapid symptom relief, continual support, and practical techniques to help clients effectively address both professional and personal life challenges. She integrates traditional therapy with highly effective complementary methodologies and holistic techniques to offer a carefully constructed personalized approach that is tailored to each client.
EDUCATION AND ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Dr. Shannon graduated Summa Cum Laude from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles with a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology. She earned her Masters of Psychology as well as her Doctorate of Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University, in California, graduating with the highest honors at the top of her class throughout all her degree programs. She successfully completed her predoctoral internship at the St. Louis VA Medical Center and was awarded a dual Post-Doctoral Fellowship from Washington University Medical School Department of Psychiatry and Department of Genetics, which was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.
Dr. Erin Shannon was born and raised in St. Louis and returned to the area after completing her education. She has a large extended family in St. Louis who is very active in the community. As the daughter of a professional athlete, Dr. Shannon grew up in a unique sub-culture that has given her an intense drive to succeed and an acute sense of the power of mind-body connections. She has a passion for learning and researching methods to facilitate optimum performance and life enhancement. Dr. Shannon regularly attends training, workshops, and professional meetings to deepen her understanding and skill in helping her clients.
Dr. Shannon has enhanced her extensive traditional psychological training and education with complementary holistic therapeutic skills. Dr. Shannon is one of only fifty therapists in the world trained in Holographic Memory Resolution Trauma Debriefing (used in the aftermath of the 9/11 world trade center attacks and other disasters to successfully treat massive traumas with success rates unparalleled to other therapeutic techniques). She has completed the third level of Healing Touch© certification and she is an Eden Energy Medicine Practitioner and a Reiki Master. She is currently studying multiple complementary therapeutic techniques, such as the highly successful Emotional Freedom Technique© (Meridian Tapping), Quantum Bioenergetics, and The Silva System©.
APA DIVISION MEMBERSHIPS
Div 6 Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology
Div 7 Developmental Psychology
Div 8 Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Div 10 Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
Div 12 Society of Clinical Psychology
Div 13 Society of Counseling Psychology
Div 14 Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Div 17 Society of Counseling Psychology
Div 19 Society for Military Psychology
Div 22 Rehabilitation Psychology
Div 28 Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse
Div 30 Psychological Hypnosis
Div 32 Humanistic Psychology
Div 38 Society for Health Psychology
Div 39 Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology
Div 40 Society for Clinical Neuropsychology
Div 42 Psychologists in Independent Practice
Div 43 Society for Couple and Family Psychology
Div 46 Media Psychology
Div 47 Exercise and Sport Psychology
Div 56 Trauma Psychology
MEMBERSHIPS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Vice President of The Association of Professional Ballplayers of America (APBPA)
Contributor to The Sports, Energy, and Consciousness Group
Chief Medical Officer of Bimini Bath Company
Vice President of Team Gateway To A Cure in association with The Michael J Fox Foundation and The Mohammad Ali Parkinson Center
Member of The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology
Member of The Saint Louis Institute For Integrative Medicine
Member of The Association for Applied Sport Psychology
Affiliate of Global Healing Supplement Company