Shane Phillips, LCSW, CAADC

Shane enjoys working with people who are struggling with a variety of mental health, substance use, and existential problems. He has a psychodynamic approach to treatment and his first priority is to establish trust and help create a relationship that is safe and honest.

Within the context of this secure relationship, his patients are able to better understand their self-limiting or self-defeating patterns, mourn life's losses, and establish or reestablish a life that is organized around the values that matter most to them.

His hope is that patients will develop a reliable self-esteem, improve their ability to be in relationship with self and others, and live life with less reactivity and more flexibility.

Shane is an Atlanta native who completed his undergraduate degree studying literature at Georgia State University. After graduation he entered the behavioral health field as a wilderness guide taking at-risk adolescents on backpacking trips in western North Carolina.

He earned an MSW degree from the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work before gaining experience in diverse settings all along the addiction medicine levels of care. These included: office-based opioid treatment, intensive outpatient treatment for adolescents, social setting detox, Duke and UNC affiliated medical centers, and serving as the executive director of a residential program.