What makes me Different…

Hello, I’m Shannon Nemzer, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, holistic practitioner, and co-founder of Intuitive Healing Journey. I have worked in a helping capacity for over 20 years. I specialize in working with highly sensitive teens and adults who have experienced challenges in their lives resulting in a disconnection between mind, body, and spirit.

For many of my clients this looks like symptoms of high sensitivity, anxiety, depression, and trauma interfering with their ability to connect with their own true spirit and live authentically. Clients who are drawn to work with me often experience feeling overwhelmed by the energy around certain people or environments. Managing boundaries in relationships can feel like an insurmountable challenge. They may have different ideas or feelings about the world or spirituality than their family or friends and want to explore these concepts in a safe space.

 My traditional mental health background has given me a solid foundation in helping others and as an empath and highly sensitive person myself, I get how struggling to thrive can feel.

My own healing journey

I have also been on a healing journey and have done a lot of my own work. Working with mental health professionals provided some healing but traditional talk therapy only took me so far. I was on a search for wholeness.

On my journey to wholeness, I worked with Shaman, astrologers, acupuncturists, and energy healers.  The experience of receiving these ancient and healing practices brought me to deeper and deeper levels of healing. I also found my Gifts which were buried DEEP!

I now use these Gifts to hold space for others in finding meaning in their life experiences and uncovering their own buried treasures.

I am a very down to earth person, straight forward and compassionate soul. My goal is to connect with each person and meet them where they are and walk with them on the path to get to where they want to be. Working with me is a collaborative experience. Only you know what is best for you on the deep dive to healing and expansion.

No psychobabble or judgement here, just true whole hearted support meeting you right where you are.

I use an integrative approach of traditional talk therapy, energy healing and shamanic practices to serve as a guide to help you to connect to your inner healer. 

When I am not working you may find me attending a local healing circle in Long Beach (healing is a true passion of mine), doing community  yoga on the bluff (my happy place), going on family walks with my children (the fur and human kind) or planning a trip for some adventure.

"To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others.  It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd."  -James Hollis