Coco Shah, LCSW
Licensed Clinician
Coco C. Shah is a writer, educator, and healing justice creative. As a licensed therapist and clinical social worker, their practice centers youth and families as well as the liberation of communities furthest from justice. They specialize in working with immigrants and children of immigrants, People of the Global Majority, LGBTQIA+ folks, and intimate/former partners coming from a wide variety of relationship structures. Coco is invested in creating spaces to explore and address the ways that our societal and cultural conditioning can hold us back from becoming the most complete versions of ourselves.
With over a decade of experience in residential, crisis counseling, case management, group facilitation, education administration consultation, psychiatric rehabilitation, school-based clinical consultation, community-based social work, substance rehabilitation, youth programming, and private practice, Coco finds true joy and excitement in working with people of all ages and backgrounds. Their anti-industrial approach to psychoanalysis is firmly rooted in the liberation health model and queer methodologies. Their practice is informed by concepts of attachment and object relations theory, narrative therapy, Internal Family Systems, and dream analysis. Coco has completed Level 1 of the Gottman Couples Therapy Method.
With individuals and partners, Coco engages open dialogue about sex, sexuality, and desire whenever possible as they believe these topics are expansive, world-building practices and courageous tactics for resilient lineages in the face of homogeneity, erasure, and genocide. Coco looks forward to offering Sex Therapy through Cumberland Counseling in the near future.
Coco offers play therapy for children ages 5+ and individual support for adolescents and teens 10-18. For adults and intimate partners, Coco’s ideal client(s) tend to arrive with some understanding of what hasn’t been working as well as a desire to shift entrenched patterns and habits. If you are ready to commit to self-reflection, growth, and writing a new story for yourself or your partnership, you may be a strong therapeutic match for Coco.
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