Shylah Ridgway

that I have traded the rigid blank-slate persona for a real human connection. Clinical expertise works better when it meets an actual personality. I am direct, I am warm, and I will tell you the truth. Real and kind, not performatively nice.

work on whatever is actually getting in your way. Trauma. ADHD. Anxiety that keeps you small. The roles you got assigned and never agreed to. We do not stay on the surface and we do not pretend the hard things are not hard.

that I am direct, humorous, and not interested in the filtered professional act. I bring real clinical experience and an actual personality into the room. I will tell you the truth, and I will laugh with you when something is genuinely funny.

are tired of performing for everyone else. Women and LGBTQIA+ adults working through trauma, ADHD that nobody caught, life transitions, and the slow process of figuring out who they actually are underneath everyone else's expectations.

I needed one and could not find one who actually got it. So I became that person, and then I built Ala Therapy Collective so women and LGBTQIA+ adults in Oklahoma would have somewhere they actually belong.

I am the founder of Ala Therapy Collective and Halcyon Therapy. I am EMDR trained and conduct forensic immigration evaluations. I see clients virtually across Oklahoma, California, Texas, Massachusetts, Hawaii, and Utah. Free 15 minute consultations available.