Donna Shin
Caring for souls in her work is a sacred honor for Donna Shin. She believes that growth, healing and transformation takes place through God - the true life giving source. The counseling relationship, like a healthy garden, must be well cultivated with the nutrients and conditions for optimum growth. Respect, skill, compassion, gentle kindness, hope, presence and Christian love prepare holy and fertile ground for wholeness and healing. Opening herself as a channel for God's grace and offering her skills and gifts she creates space to listen to each unique soul's calling to support and guide another in their own unique unfolding. Opening to God's grace, spoken or unspoken, invites the true source of life who bestows grace and brings new life.
"So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth." 1 Corinthians 3:7
Donna has her Master's Degree in Pastoral Counseling from Loyola College in Maryland. She is a Licenced Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and a a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC) and is also certified in Clinical Hypnosis. She has special training in experiential therapies that utilize classical music (Guided Imagery with Music) and art therapy (the ancient art of Mandala). Her clinical orientation is psychodynamically based.
She has cared for adults, teens, and children at The Center for Grief and Loss at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium, Maryland over the last six years. She believes that grief is foundational to many of the issues that present in therapy. Her work has included helping others cope with trauma, physical and emotional abuse, divorce, anxiety and stress, issues of midlife, transition, change and relationship issues.
Donna strives to help each client achieve balance in their life and enjoys helping people connect with the quiet voice of God speaking within themselves to understand their personal inner truth. Helping others find the courage to experience their full range of feelings in order to grow in their awareness of God, self, and others is the essence of her calling.
