Shauna Hill, LICSW is the co-founder & CEO of StateChange & a practicing trauma psychotherapist specializing in neuro-integrative clinical practice with children, youth, families & adult women and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Shauna’s work as a clinician, educator & executive leader in diverse child & adult serving treatment settings spans two decades and includes
High complexity child & family service programs such as therapeutic foster care, family stabilization & crisis response
School mental health, therapeutic alternative education & special education advocacy with neurodiverse learners & students with a history of trauma and educational displacement
Wilderness, adventure & experiential programming for youth & adults
Residential, acute stabilization & dual-diagnosis (substance use) treatment
Hospitals & Healthcare Settings
LGTBQIA+ mental health & gender-affirming mental health
A 2016, a rare cancer diagnosis clarified Shauna’s passion for building resilience capacity in communities directly with a focus on expanding mental health equity & accelerating the integration of behavioral & brain sciences research & innovation into communities.
In 2017, Shauna founded the Trauma & Attachment Education Project to bring high-quality, neuroscience-rooted training & professional development to schools, early childhood & childcare programs, camps & other child and family serving organizations in VT & NH. In 2021, TAEP evolved & expanded its mission, Co-founded with longtime colleague Nicole Hapeman, MA as State Change, a full-service behavioral health & neuroscience consulting and education firm bringing occupational mental health & resilience programs to community organizations, businesses and individuals looking to stabilize, restore, revitalize & expand their skills.
Shauna was born & raised in Vermont’s remote Northeast Kingdom. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Sociology & French from Middlebury College and a Master’s of Social Work in Child, Youth & Family Practice from the University of Washington-Seattle. Shauna is passionate about accelerating resilience, equity & inclusion through the integration of clinical research & innovation directly to communities as public health. She lives in Burlington, VT with her family.