
Understanding Minds Psychological Services
Psychologist
Verified by Psychology Today Verified by Psychology Today
11144 Tesson Ferry Rd, Suite 101, Saint Louis, MO 63123
Let's Connect (314) 897-7736

Understanding Minds provides trusted, confidential, and comprehensive mental health services. Our supportive team of providers take a proactive approach with assessment, collaborative treatment planning, progress review, and validated approaches to make progress achievable. Your needs are important to us, and we strive to offer the best possible experience in mental healthcare. This is why we have administrative staff available to assist you 5 days a week and we request feedback from you about your experience and fit with your provider.
We offer individual therapy across the lifespan in addition to offering mental health physicals, play therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, brief and long-term therapy, psychological evals for diagnostic clarification, testing for learning disabilities, sleep consultations, and more. Our staff develops programs to meet the needs we see in our clients!
Our staff are sensitive to the diversity and unique needs among clients. We believe everyone should have access to therapy and therefore accept most major insurances. We offer daytime, evening, weekend, and early morning appointments as well as in-person and telehealth to suit your needs. We are accepting new clients!
Take the first step to help. Call or Email Understanding Minds Psychological Services now - (314) 897-7736
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Finances
Fees
- Pay by American Express, Cash, Check, Discover, Health Savings Account, Mastercard, Visa
Insurance
- Aetna
- Ambetter
- Anthem
- Blue Cross
- Blue Shield
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- Cigna and Evernorth
- ComPsych
- Government Employees Health Association (GEHA)
- Humana
- Medicare
- Optum
- TRICARE
- United Medical Resources (UMR)
- UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
- WellFirst Health
- Out of Network
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Understanding Minds Psychological Services
Psychologist
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of Missouri / 2007028046 Shanon Harlow
- Certificate from St. Louis Psychological Association 2008
- Certificate from American Psychological Association 2007
- Attended California School of Professional Psychology, Graduated 2007
Psychologist: Shanon Harlow
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Anxiety
- Relationship Issues
- Depression
Expertise
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Adoption
- Anger Management
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Behavioral Issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bisexual
- Career Counseling
- Child
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Chronic Pain
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Developmental Disorders
- Divorce
- Education and Learning Disabilities
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Geriatric and Seniors
- Grief
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Intellectual Disability
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Men's Issues
- Mood Disorders
- Narcissistic Personality (NPD)
- Obesity
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Testing and Evaluation
- Thinking Disorders
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Veterans
- Weight Loss
- Women's Issues
Client Focus
Age
Toddler ,
Children (6 to 10) ,
Preteen ,
Teen ,
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals ,
Couples ,
Family
Communities
Bisexual Allied ,
Gay Allied ,
Lesbian Allied ,
Transgender Allied
Age
Toddler ,
Children (6 to 10) ,
Preteen ,
Teen ,
Adults ,
Elders (65+)
Participants
Individuals ,
Couples ,
Family
Communities
Bisexual Allied ,
Gay Allied ,
Lesbian Allied ,
Transgender Allied
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- Eclectic
- EMDR
- Emotionally Focused
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Gottman Method
- Humanistic
- Integrative
- Interpersonal
- Play Therapy
- Positive Psychology
- Psychodynamic
- Psychological Testing and Evaluation
- Relational
- Sandplay
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Trauma Focused
Location
Primary Location
Understanding Minds Psychological Services
11144 Tesson Ferry Rd
Suite 101
Saint Louis, MO 63123
(314) 897-7736Email us
Additional Location
Understanding Minds Psychological Services
12801 Flushing Meadows Drive
Suite 120
Saint Louis, MO 63131
(314) 897-7736Nearby Areas
Cities
Counties
Neighborhoods
Take the first step to help. Call now - (314) 897-7736

Understanding Minds Psychological Services
Psychologist