Shira Etzion believes that relationships are one of the most powerful arenas for both personal and relational actualization. Rather than focusing solely on the end question—“Do I stay or do I go?”—her work centers on creating space to explore what our relationships are here to teach us. This same intention guides her work with individuals, including ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, where the focus remains on deepening self-understanding and cultivating clarity in how we relate to ourselves and others. Her intention is to support individuals in arriving at a place of love, clarity, and self-awareness, where they can ask from a grounded and sincere place: What is truly best for me, for others, and for the life I want to create? From that place of love and clarity, thoughtful and aligned choices can emerge.
Shira holds an MA in Marriage and Family Therapy from Hofstra University and a BFA from Syracuse University. Her training includes certification through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), as well as certification as a Redirecting Children’s Behavior Facilitator. She has completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training and is a Reiki Level II practitioner. Shira has also trained in mindfulness with John Newton, completed Level 1 training in both the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and earned a Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Research from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She has also completed Level 1 training in Relational Life Therapy.
About Me
About Me
I believe our deepest struggles often reveal what we cannot yet see alone.
I believe that our relationships are among the most sacred and profound spaces for transformation. They are where we encounter not only another person, but ourselves. Our deepest longings, our oldest wounds, our fears, our patterns, and the parts of us still waiting to be fully seen often come alive within the intimacy of relationship.
The people we love can become mirrors, reflecting back aspects of ourselves that we may not yet have the capacity to see alone. And while this can be deeply uncomfortable, it can also be one of life's greatest invitations: an invitation to become more conscious, more whole, and more fully who we are.
I do not believe that every difficult relationship is meant to last, nor do I believe that every moment of conflict is a sign that something is broken. I believe that before we rush toward an answer, there is often something asking to be understood.What is this relationship here to reveal?
What is this conflict asking me to see? What part of myself is ready to be reclaimed, released, or transformed? And who am I being invited to become through this experience?
These are the questions that guide my work.
What it feels like to work with me.
I listen for what is underneath the story you are telling. You may come to me saying, "I don't know if I love my partner anymore." I am interested in that question, but I am also listening for what has made the question possible now.
Why this moment?
What has changed in you?
What have you known but not yet been able to say?
What are you afraid the answer might ask of you?
I am not a passive presence in the room. I will ask questions that may challenge the way you have understood yourself and your circumstances. I will help you notice patterns, contradictions, and truths that may be difficult to see from inside your own experience.
But I will not tell you what your answer should be.
My role is to help you reach the place within yourself where the answer becomes clear.