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Shannon Savell, PhD
Provider's Specialties
- Psychology
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My care philosophy
I provide evidence-based, trauma-informed, culturally responsive care tailored to every individual patient and their family.
Get to know Shannon Savell, PhD
Conditions Treated
- Anxiety
- Attention / Motivation / ADHD
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- ADHD: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Depression
- Families navigating the challenges of high-risk infants
- Impulse control disorders
- Mood and Anxiety
- Parent coaching
- Relationship problems
Languages spoken
- English
Experience and background
I am a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in early childhood mental health concerns. I am very passionate about supporting the whole family system from a strengths-based, trauma-informed, culturally responsive lens. I provide family focused treatments like Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and PC-CARE both of which can be adapted for a variety of early childhood mental health concerns including behavioral concerns, emotion dysregulation, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and ASD for children ages 1-10.
Undergraduate 2015
University of Virginia (VA)
Graduate 2019
University of Virginia
Graduate 2024
University of Virginia
Internship 2024
University of Colorado (University Hospital) Program
Fellowship 2025
University of Colorado (Children's Hospital Colorado) Child Psychology Program
For Patients:
My research program focuses on how to best support family relationships to promote mental health and well-being for every member of the family system.
My research program focuses on how to best support family relationships to promote mental health and well-being for every member of the family system.
For Referring Providers:
My research program focuses on promoting women’s mental and physical health during pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood through relational interventions. My current and future work seeks to: (1) examine how relational interventions to promote women’s health can be more easily implemented and disseminated (e.g., from maternal fetal medicine, OBGYN, or family medicine clinics, NICU); and 2) identify the psychological (relational functioning, depressive/anxiety symptoms) and biological (e.g., neuropeptide hormones such as oxytocin and stress hormones such as cortisol) mechanisms of intervention change, explore comparative effectiveness across formats (e.g., group, individual, app-based) and identify for whom and when relational interventions are best delivered. My long-term career objective is to develop relational interventions that are evidence-based, scalable, accessible, and cost-effective to support the mental and physical health of the whole family system through targeting the relationship system as a unique risk and protective factor.
My research program focuses on promoting women’s mental and physical health during pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood through relational interventions. My current and future work seeks to: (1) examine how relational interventions to promote women’s health can be more easily implemented and disseminated (e.g., from maternal fetal medicine, OBGYN, or family medicine clinics, NICU); and 2) identify the psychological (relational functioning, depressive/anxiety symptoms) and biological (e.g., neuropeptide hormones such as oxytocin and stress hormones such as cortisol) mechanisms of intervention change, explore comparative effectiveness across formats (e.g., group, individual, app-based) and identify for whom and when relational interventions are best delivered. My long-term career objective is to develop relational interventions that are evidence-based, scalable, accessible, and cost-effective to support the mental and physical health of the whole family system through targeting the relationship system as a unique risk and protective factor.
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