Virtual
Counseling & Support
Convenient, supportive services from home for emotional wellness, life transitions, recovery, personal growth, and other concerns.
Support & Sessions
Support that meets you where you are
Beginning You offers warm, practical wellness support for people navigating stress, life transitions, recovery, personal growth, and the everyday moments when it helps to have someone in your corner.
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Group Wellness Support
Small supportive groups designed around shared life experiences, reflection, encouragement, and practical wellness tools.
In Development
In-Person & Equine Experiences
Future in-person experiences will build on Beginning You's relationship-centered approach in a peaceful outdoor setting with equines.
A Different Kind of Connection
Healing doesn’t always have to happen in an office.
Sometimes connection looks like a conversation. Sometimes it looks like standing quietly beside a horse. Sometimes it starts by opening a journal and being honest with yourself.
In Person • Ethel, Washington
Equine-Assisted Services
Beginning You is developing a long-term equine-assisted specialty rooted in experiential, relationship-centered care. Current clinical work during graduate training is provided within the appropriate supervised arrangement.
Ground-based equine interaction
Natural outdoor environment
Experiential activities and reflection
Emotional wellness and personal growth
Recovery-focused support
By appointment in Ethel, WA
Graduate Counseling & Clinical Supervision
Clinical training supported by TheraHerd
As part of graduate counseling practicum and internship training, select clients may receive clinical services through TheraHerd for billing and clinical supervision.
Clinical supervision is provided by Christina Fajardo, MA, LMHC, Founder of TheraHerd.
Beginning You remains a separate business. The TheraHerd relationship applies to supervised practicum and internship services arranged through that practice.
Meet Shannon
A supportive, practical approach to change
Beginning You was created to offer a welcoming place for people navigating change, recovery, emotional wellness, and personal growth. Shannon is a graduate counseling student completing supervised clinical training while bringing professional recovery experience and a growing specialization in equine-assisted work.
The approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in the belief that meaningful progress can happen through conversation, connection, reflection, and experiential work.
Beginning You Guided Journals
There is a journal for every journey.
Explore guided journals created to meet you where you are through growth, healing, change, reflection, relationships, motherhood, wellness, and more.
Wellness Shop
Small comforts for everyday wellness.
Thoughtful products that pair naturally with reflection, rest, journaling, and meaningful daily rituals.
Let’s Connect
Ready to connect?
Ask about virtual support, journals, groups, wellness products, partnerships, or anything else Beginning You.
This is only a contact request form — not a clinical intake form. Please do not include medical, mental-health, or other sensitive information.
