Shawn Bact LCSW, MBA (They/Them)
Psychotherapist for And Still We Rise. Shawn is a strengths-based and trauma-informed therapist who works collaboratively with clients to navigate challenges, identify and achieve goals, and co-create spaces for healing. They believe that the therapeutic relationship can be a cornerstone in the healing process, that each person’s healing process is unique, and that the client is the expert on their own healing journey. Shawn aims to meet clients where they are with compassion, curiosity and cultural humility.
Shawn particularly enjoys working with queer and trans folks who have experienced trauma and with people who experience trauma as a result of the stress of living with an identity that has been made marginalized. They are committed to acknowledging the harm caused by the mental health system and to actively disrupting the systems and structures upholding White supremacy and ableism in mental health care. Shawn’s other clinical interests include somatic-based therapies, PTSD and complex trauma, dissociation, gender and sexuality identity development, gender-affirming care, marginalized stress and oppression, non-heteronormative relationships, life transitions, substance use, harm reduction, abolitionism, body neutrality, anxiety, depression, and mindfulness.
Shawn is trained in EMDR therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1, and is currently completing their IFS Level 1 certification. Shawn’s work also draws from the liberation health model, psychodynamic therapy, narrative therapy, and solutions focused therapy. They have experience providing individual outpatient therapy at a group practice in Roslindale, outpatient and group therapy to undergraduate and graduate level college students, and providing in-home support to BIPOC LGBTQIA+ young adults and their families.
Shawn received their MSW from Simmons University with a certificate in the treatment of trauma, and their MBA from The Heller School at Brandeis University. Outside of work, Shawn enjoys supporting transgender and gender non-conforming youth, community organizing to build the world they want to live in, finding new bodies of water to float in, riding their bike, and drinking warm beverages.
Shawn is fluent in English.
Insurances Accepted:
Private Pay
BCBS
Optum
Lyra
Aetna
Harvard Pilgrim
Tufts Commercial Plan
