Shea McTaggart, PsyD
Depth-oriented therapy for adults and couples, when you want complexity held with rigor: patterns named with care, mind and brain read as one story, and a room that stays honest without turning cold.
I sit with what is murky until it takes shape, and I tell you honestly what I see when the pattern is ready to be named.
In the room
Thoughtful, direct, and willing to name what repeats
Therapy with me is depth-oriented and relational, but the room often feels clarifying rather than cushioning. I work from the premise that the mind is biological, relational, and embedded in memory. That shows up in session as attention to what repeats in feeling, in relationship, and in how you describe your own mind.
I am comfortable sitting in ambiguity without leaving you in it: we slow down, then work to understand what is happening inside you and between us. When something is being avoided or repeated, I may name it sooner than you expect, always in service of understanding, not performance. Clients who know themselves well but still feel stuck often find that useful.
My psychoanalytic training is joined to a neuropsychoanalytic interest, so brain and psyche are one lens in therapy, not only on test day. That informs how I work with trauma, ADHD, the gap between functioning and feeling, and presentations that do not fit a single box. I am not offering worksheets or scripted protocols; I am offering consistency, rigor, and mutual respect.
Also at this practice
Psychological and neuropsychological assessment (separate from therapy)
I lead assessment for adults 18+. For me, assessment is sense-making, not just diagnosis: standardized data held alongside interview, history, and the question you were actually sent with. Findings should inform treatment, accommodations, or next steps in language you can use.
Common referral questions include ADHD and executive functioning, mood and anxiety disorders, trauma-related concerns, personality patterns, and overlapping symptoms that have not responded to prior treatment. The same integrative lens I use in therapy informs how I read validity, profile, and the gap between test scores and lived function. Learn more about the assessment process.
Areas of focus
What I work with
- Emotion regulation, anxiety, depression, grief, and burnout
- Attachment, relationships, and life transitions
- Trauma and complex PTSD, with attention to neurobiological safety and narrative processing
- Adult ADHD and neurodiversity, in therapy and, when needed, through formal evaluation
- High-achievers and professionals navigating perfectionism and imposter feelings
- Personality structure and complex patterns through psychoanalytic depth
- Couples therapy when relational dynamics intersect with individual history
Background
Fifteen years across diverse settings
Over fifteen years I have worked in community mental health, inpatient psychiatric care, rehabilitation neuropsychology, forensic settings, and private practice. That breadth informs both therapy and assessment: how people function under pressure, how they reorganize after breakdown, and how the same underlying patterns can show up in cognition, relationships, and self-concept.
I am comfortable with complexity and with clients who have been told their experience is "too much" or hard to categorize. I also provide therapeutic assessment, clinical supervision, and couples therapy. At this practice I work alongside Catherine Comiskey, LCSW; we share a psychodynamic frame but offer different therapeutic stances. Therapy at this practice.
Location & telehealth
Where I see clients
I am licensed in Colorado and Texas. Our office is in Denver. If you are in Colorado, we can meet in person or via secure video. If you are in Texas, I see clients through telehealth only.
- In person
- Denver, Colorado
- Telehealth
- Colorado and Texas
- Licensed in
- Colorado and Texas
Begin with a conversation
For therapy, assessment, or both: a complimentary 15-minute consultation to see how my way of working might fit.