Yuri Shane, LCSW

Staff Psychotherapist

She, Her, Hers

Psychotherapy fee: $187.

Yuri Shane is a psychodynamic therapist who is passionate about helping individuals deepen self-acceptance, trust their emotional experiences, and better understand the patterns that shape their lives and relationships. She works collaboratively with clients to explore both areas of pain and areas of strength, helping them move toward greater clarity, growth, and meaning.

Yuri specializes in:

  • perinatal mental health

  • anxiety disorders

  • trauma and PTSD

  • grief and loss

  • life transitions and identity shifts

  • relationship and intimacy challenges

  • attachment and relational healing

  • professional and personal identity exploration

  • post-traumatic growth

  • culturally responsive therapy

  • queer-affirming care

Yuri’s therapeutic approach is rooted in psychodynamic, relational, and attachment-based theories. She actively reflects on what clients bring into sessions and helps explore how unresolved experiences from the past may continue to shape present emotions, relationships, and coping patterns. Her work is thoughtful, insight-oriented, and grounded in curiosity, compassion, and meaningful connection.

Through targeted reflection and collaborative exploration, Yuri supports clients in identifying patterns that may no longer serve them while also helping them reconnect with resilience, authenticity, and emotional trust. She believes healing often involves making sense of the many layers of identity, history, and lived experience that shape who we are.

Born in Myanmar, Yuri has lived and worked in many places around the world and brings a deeply multicultural and socially aware perspective into her clinical work. Prior to becoming a therapist, she worked in consulting and higher education across four continents. She also co-founded and led a nonprofit supporting first-generation college students and collaborated with CU Boulder to develop an evidence-based social and emotional learning program.

Yuri is also the co-author of a published article focused on therapy practices for queer communities in the journal Studies in Clinical Social Work. She thoughtfully incorporates aspects of identity that are meaningful to clients, including race, ethnicity, class, faith/spirituality, disability, gender, and sexuality.

Yuri integrates a variety of evidence-based approaches into her work depending on each client’s needs and goals, including ACT, CBT, DBT, Narrative Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and trauma-focused interventions.

Outside of therapy, Yuri’s self-care includes spending time with her children, husband, and dog, creating bad art, appreciating good art, listening to live music, reading, swimming, and hosting friends.

Education:

  • Smith College School for Social Work — MSW

  • Columbia University — BA and MA

Trainings:

  • Perinatal Mood Disorders: Components of Care — Postpartum Support International

  • Advanced Clinical Attachment Training in Perinatal Substance Use

  • Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

  • Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS)

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

  • Motivational Interviewing (MI)

  • Narrative Therapy

  • Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)

  • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

  • Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

Licensure:
Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies
CSW.09932355

Interested in working with Yuri?

The first step to beginning care at Parent & Family Wellness Center is scheduling an intake appointment with one of our intake clinicians. During this appointment, they will take time to better understand your needs, goals, preferences, and areas of support so they can thoughtfully help match you with the best-fit therapist.

If you feel especially drawn to Yuri, you are always welcome to mention that during your intake appointment. If appropriate and availability allows, we will always do our best to honor those preferences.

We offer both in-person therapy in Boulder and virtual therapy throughout Colorado.

Start Therapy: Book a 60-Min Virtual Intake