About
The Kintsugi Difference
At Kintsugi Counseling, we believe that by prioritizing care of our counselors, we can provide a higher quality of service to our clients. At Kintsugi you will see counselors serving balanced caseloads, attending trainings to stay current on new approaches, taking scheduled time off and making space to meet the needs of their families. We steward our resources responsibly, including ourselves. By allowing counselors to better take care of themselves, we believe that counselors can provide a better quality of service to their clients.
Our Services
We provide mental health assessment, individual, group, and family therapy to treat a variety of mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, difficulties with adjustment to life stressors, trauma, substance use, and more. Call our office to get a free 15 minute consultation to determine if one of our providers is a good fit for you or your child.
Vanessa Shannon, LCSW
Vanessa is a state certified School Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of Alaska. Vanessa has over 15 years experience working with youth and families in various settings such as residential mental health, outpatient community mental health, juvenile justice, child protective services, K-12 schools, and school district administration. Vanessa has training in EMDR, Motivational Interviewing, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Restorative Practices, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Vanessa utilizes a bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach that considers addressing every aspect of her client's life, including faith. Vanessa is faith friendly and willing to incorporate aspects of faith into sessions, if that is important to her client's overall wellbeing.
Virginia Redmond, LCSW, CDC I
Ginny has over 15 years of experience working with transition-age youth, adults, children and families. She spent much of her career at University of Alaska Fairbanks where she provided advising and mentoring for at-risk college students and led an awesome staff. She earned an MSW degree from Boise State University and worked in inpatient and outpatient substance use treatment. Prior to coming to private practice, she worked in Community Mental Health as a child and family clinician where she specialized in child trauma, anxiety and mood disorders, in addition to behavior management and parenting support. Ginny has training in the Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) Framework, Motivational Interviewing, EMDR, and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Ginny is certified in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and as a level I Chemical Dependency Counselor.