Contact by email at dramandashea@greenampersandpsychology.com for a complimentary telephone consultation to discuss your needs.
I created Green Ampersand Psychology to provide highly individualized, empowering and compassionate mental health services to women in Ohio. I have dedicated my career to working with women with complex trauma, reproductive mental health concerns, and women Veterans for over 15 years via services through the Department of Veterans Affairs, specialized trauma centers, and academic medical centers.
Meet Dr. Shea
I am a licensed psychologist with over 15 years of experience in psychotherapy. I received my bachelor’s in psychology from The Ohio State University. I earned both my master’s degree and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Purdue School of Science at IUPUI. I received in-depth training in trauma recovery through Summa Health’s Center for Traumatic Stress and have spent over a decade as a clinical psychologist, Women’s Mental Health coordinator, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy Team Lead at the Central Ohio Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.
When I am not pouring my heart into my life’s work of serving women to address their mental health goals, my favorite place to be is with my husband, our daughter, and our thoroughly spoiled little pup, Gracie Green Bean. I’m an avid reader and particularly enjoy intersectional feminist sci-fi and nonfiction centering social justice, including anti-racism, feminism, reproductive justice and ecological justice. I love puttering around in my garden, growing things or working to accepting that they did not grow.
Green Ampersand
I named my practice to honor women’s growth and vitality represented by the lushness of the color green. The Ampersand symbol represents the AND of our world, our lives, and our futures. There’s more that is left to discover, that we might be leaving out, and that we can consider together when feeling stuck. The ampersand honors that we can find joy and meaning in our lives even with great loss and pain.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
-Helen Keller
In Depth Expertise in Effective Psychotherapy Approaches for Women
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
- Prolonged Exposure (PE)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Level II iRest Teacher