About Me

I believe that each of us deserve to live meaningful lives,. We deserve to have rich and nourishing relationships. We deserve to know ourselves and be known deeply. Since my early 20s I have committed to the path of self-reflection. I have trained intensively with master therapists and committed to studying psychology with all of my being. I believe the dominate narrative about mental health can be misleading. Mental health is not just about our private, interior lives. It is about how we relate to world. How we relate to others. How we relate to our strengths, and shortcomings.

My Professional Background

I began working with clients in 2012. while receiving intensive training from a former affiliate of the John Bradshaw Center. There I gained in-depth knowledge of recovery from intergenerational trauma, shame, and codependency. These are things related to what we now call CPTSD. They also underly most of what we see as anxiety and depressive conditions. This was a unique training in both its intensity and focus. Subsequent to that I worked with the impact of trauma in different settings; with folks exiting incarceration, with children many of whom were in foster care, families, and individuals.

My Story & Interests

When I was 19, I broke my collar bone playing rugby while at university, this gave me a lot more down time than I was accustomed to having… and I began to question everything.

A family friend gave me a book that inspired me to start meditating. The next year I volunteered abroad, as a volunteer wildlife ranger in South Africa for 3 months, then as an English teacher in Nepal for nearly 6 months. While in Nepal, it became clear to me I wanted to study psychology. I was reading about Buddhism, meditation, Jungian theory and became very passionate in learning about the heart-mind. So when I got back to the states, I started out on a path which brought me to training to be a therapist.

Most of therapy training happens not in a book-learning, cognitive way. I had to actually work at the discomfort I felt sitting with other human beings, while I was in their presence! I had to really see what my own patterns were, and learn how to work with them from the inside out. I had to learn to grieve, learn to express anger, learn to listen with my whole body.

Now this learning has equipped me to guide others in their own learning. And it is a privilege to do it.

Email me today at scott@scottmenasco.com , or visit my contact page to schedule a consultation