Shana Lutker

Shana brings a curious, creative, and collaborative stance to the practice of therapy. She works with adults, couples, and children who seek to untangle the knots that stifle connection and growth. She is particularly attuned to help people struggling with the impact of trauma, anxiety, overwhelm, life and career transitions, and parenthood. Shana holds space that is deeply informed by cultural humility, sensitivity, and allyship, and welcomes clients from diverse backgrounds and the LGBTQ+ community. Whether new to therapy or returning, Shana will support you in strengthening resilience and self-compassion.

Shana’s clinical orientation is relational, psychodynamic, and steeped in the understanding that trauma impacts both mind and body. She attends to the formative nature of early relationships and the need to heal., and also believes that our stories are shaped by structures of power, language, and social contexts. Deepening our awareness of all these forces that press in on us can lead to real change. Therapy is an active, improvisational process that has a transformative potential to re-shape our stories and relationships.  

Shana is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT #16365. She holds an MA from Antioch University Los Angeles in Clinical Psychology, an MFA in Art from University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA from Brown University. She has additional training in integrative psychoanalytic couple therapy from the Institute for Clinical Social Work, completed the LAISPS one-year Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program, and trained at the Maple Counseling Center.