Jeanie Shade, LCSW

Jeanie Shade is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with experience across hospital and community settings who brings a calm, skills-focused approach to therapy. Licensed in Idaho, Montana, and Arkansas, she holds the LCSW credential - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - which indicates specialized training to provide clinical mental health care. Over the course of her licensed practice she spent substantial time working with adults and adolescents in hospital settings, supporting people with severe mental health concerns and witnessing how meaningful change can emerge when someone is truly heard.

She believes that telling one’s story and being witnessed can unlock a person’s own wisdom for wellness. For the past two years she has led a community group at a local library to teach practical mental health skills and offer members a place to practice new tools. She enjoys teaching techniques that are useful across many life situations, regardless of a person’s background or circumstances.

Jeanie’s counseling style centers on presence and deep listening. She asks clients what they want to learn or resolve, then offers guidance, insight, and practical skills tailored to those goals. She introduces foundational ideas such as mindfulness, allowing emotions to be felt, centeredness and grounding, self-love, and the distinction between surviving skills and thriving skills. Her work integrates client-centered therapy, solution-focused therapy, and mindfulness therapy to blend behavioral tools with exploration of underlying beliefs and patterns.

In addition to traditional talk therapy, Jeanie is a Certified Emotion Code Practitioner (CECP). The Emotion Code is an energy-based method that aims to identify unprocessed or "stuck" emotions, explore when they became trapped, and support their release through focused intention. She can weave Emotion Code work with conversational therapy or offer it as a focused modality on its own. Jeanie emphasizes courage and collaboration, inviting people to engage in a mindful process of growth and change.