Dr. Manisha Shendge, M.Div., D.Min., LMFT, FT, DCP
Dr. Shendge is a clinical therapist specializing in helping individuals, couples, and families navigate major life transitions. She offers a holistic approach, drawing on various therapeutic modalities to foster emotional, spiritual, and relational well-being.
With over two decades of experience, Dr. Shendge works with clients facing a range of challenges, including trauma, adverse experiences, grief and loss, relationship issues, neurodiversity, and chronic illness. Her goal is to help you constructively and quickly move toward a more hopeful and abundant future by addressing the root causes of your pain.
She is a Clinical Fellow in the American Academy of Marriage and Family Therapist. In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Shendge is a certified Dementia Care Practitioner and a Fellow in Thanatology (the study of death, dying, bereavement, and grief). She also conducts workshops for mental health and healthcare professionals, focusing on skill enhancement and stress management. She also works with clergy in dealing with transitions and ministry concerns.
Dr. Shendge, a graduate of Ursinus College, Princeton Theological Seminary and Drew University, is an adjunct professor at Chestnut Hill College.
Sheila Angha, LSW
Sheila Angha is a second generation mixed-race licensed social worker who graduated with a Masters of Social Work from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. She’s worked with a variety of marginalized populations in clinics, hospitals, schools, group homes and family homes. She’s currently working under supervision towards her clinical social work licensure in Pennsylvania.
Sheila is trained in EMDR and works with adults including but not limited to, veterans, mothers & postpartum depression, adult children of immigrant parents, and BIPOC (Black Indigenous and People of Color) with an emphasis on cultural, racial, generational and institutional trauma.
Sheila’s focus is to build a foundational framework to examine your multifaceted and complex life experiences through a trauma-informed lens. With many people experiencing at least one traumatic event in their life, the imprints of trauma can feel insurmountable. Her goal is to offer support and resources to recognize and address how emotions affect the mind-body.
Carrying the weight of painful life experiences along with intersecting identities can feel heavy, isolating and overwhelming. Societal and cultural expectations, oppression, family dynamics, perfectionism, and simply not having a sense of belonging can ignite painful feelings of fear, shame, self-blame, guilt, grief, and anger. These feelings overtly and covertly affect how we function at work, school, and in relationships with ourselves and others.
Healing is a nonlinear process, it’s an ongoing life journey that takes patience, courage and compassion. As we examine the layers of your experiences, we’ll build accessible skills tailored to your unique needs and goals to help reach your highest potential. Your feelings and lived experiences are valid, you are the expert of your life.
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