Bryony Shaw

Bryony Shaw is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works with adults navigating addiction, mood disorders, and relational patterns that persist despite repeated attempts to change them. Many of her clients arrive having already tried to understand themselves through previous therapy, self-help, or sheer effort and find that insight alone has not been enough to shift what keeps happening. Bryony's work focuses on what is underneath the presenting problem: the early learning, relational history, and unconscious pattern driving current distress.

Her clinical specialties span three interconnected areas. In addiction work, Bryony focuses on understanding the function the substance or behaviour is serving: what it regulates, what it protects against, and what would need to change for it to become unnecessary. In mood work, she helps clients distinguish between symptoms that warrant direct management and those that are better understood as signals pointing towards unresolved material. In relational work, she sees individuals and couples dealing with conflict, trust rupture, demand-withdraw cycles, and patterns that repeat across relationships including limerence and obsessive attachment, areas she has studied in depth.

Bryony's approach is depth-informed and practically oriented. She draws on family systems thinking, attachment theory, and psychodynamic frameworks, with a focus on building genuine self-understanding rather than behavioural compliance. Sessions are structured enough to move forwards and spacious enough to follow what matters.

Bryony holds a doctorate in psychology and provides telehealth therapy to adults and couples across California and Nevada.