You don’t need to spend your life fighting yourself.
Move beyond emotional eating, people-pleasing, and self-criticism. Build a life rooted in self-trust.
I’m Dr. Shawn Hondorp, a clinical health psychologist helping thoughtful, capable adults break free from patterns that keep them stuck and create meaningful, sustainable change.
Make Peace With Food & Your Body
Break free from binge eating, emotional eating, and the exhausting cycle of dieting and self-criticism.
Trust Yourself More Deeply
Move beyond people-pleasing, perfectionism, and overthinking to make decisions with greater confidence and clarity.
Feel More Fully Alive
Reconnect with your needs, creativity, and joy while building a life that feels genuinely aligned with who you are.
You Belong Here.
Support for reconnecting with yourself
You may have learned to disconnect from your body, doubt your own needs, or measure your worth through achievement, productivity, or caring for everyone else.
But you’ve always sensed there could be another way—one grounded in self-trust, creativity, meaningful connection, and the wisdom already within you.
Whether you’re here for therapy, thoughtful resources, or an immersive retreat experience, this is a space to slow down, listen deeply, and create change that feels nourishing rather than depleting.
You don’t have to have it all figured out. Just bring your curiosity, courage, and whole self.
Ready to create meaningful, lasting change?
Individual Therapy
Compassionate, evidence-based therapy for adults navigating people-pleasing, perfectionism, emotional or binge eating, chronic dieting, and difficulty trusting themselves.
Tune In + Explore
Listen to the podcast, read the blog, and discover creative offerings to help you—and your clients—build body trust in real life.
Step Away + Reconnect
Join an intimate Lake Michigan retreat designed to help you slow down, reconnect with yourself, and create what’s next from a place of clarity, courage, and self-trust.
How is The Innovative Therapist Different?
This isn’t about perfect strategies or rigid frameworks. It’s a leadership program centered on how you show up—in the room, in your relationships, and in your life.
Here, we focus on building self-trust, unlearning harmful norms, and creating space for your real voice and desires to lead.
Through a mix of lived experience, clinical wisdom, and creative experimentation, I and the community help you feel more grounded, confident, and connected—so you can show up in the world as you were always meant to.
The result? More clarity, more joy, and a life that actually feels like yours.
Build Real Change—Without the Burnout
Reconnect with Your Inner Wisdom
You already hold the insight, creativity, and clarity you need. Together, we explore ways to help you unlock all of it, and then take consistent action to build new patterns of working and living.
Clarify Your Zone of Genius
You have gifts that no one else does. Let’s get clear on what energizes you—so you can do more of the work that lights you up and less of what drains you.
Connect with Like-Minded Humans & Thrive
The world often disconnects us from ourselves. Here, you’ll find a brave community ready to lift you up as you create a life and career that feels aligned, expansive, and alive.
✨Become the version of you the world needs—the bold, connected, fully alive one.✨
The Innovative Therapist community is here to lift you up.
About Me
As a psychologist who’s worked with people navigating eating and body trust struggles, I’ve seen just how hard—and how powerful—it can be to truly listen to our bodies.
But listening takes courage. It means unlearning the protective strategies we’ve built—like perfectionism, overworking, self-doubt, or dieting—and honoring the parts of us that have been just trying to keep us safe.
I’ve been there too. I’ve had parts that turned to binge eating, achievement, and burnout to survive. But I’ve also experienced what’s possible when we start to lead with self-trust and curiosity instead of control.
Now, I help therapists and creative humans reconnect with their gifts, reclaim their energy, and build lives and work that feel honest, aligned, and full of possibility.
Stories from the Community
“An experience I continue to carry with me.”
“The Innovative Therapist Retreat created such a deep sense of connection and grounding that I find myself thinking back to those moments often.
Whether it was the unburdened freedom I felt during yoga on the lawn or the unexpected sensory experiences that stayed with me, it was truly transformative.
Even now, when I face moments of entrepreneurial angst, I think about the people I met and the support we shared. It’s a community and experience I continue to carry with me in both my work and personal growth.”
– Kristi, Innovative Therapist Retreat Participant
“Creativity became joy – not a test of worth.”
“This process gave me permission to reframe creativity as joy instead of a test of worthiness.
Reading Big Magic reminded me how much I love writing and creating—I even started notes for a women’s group and a possible book.
I’ve started sharing this insight with my clients, and it’s so powerful.”
– Nicole, Inspired Innovators Participant
“Overcoming fear changed everything.”
“I’m normally a very anxious person, but I went to a dance class not knowing what to expect—and felt this, ‘Whatever happens, happens’ mindset.
The fact that I even showed up made me so proud of myself.
Just overcoming that fear was everything I wanted. And now I’m noticing that shift showing up in other areas of my life too.”
– Hande, Inspired Innovators Participant
You Don’t Have to Do It Alone
Helping others heal in today’s world is anything but simple. The endless stream of books, podcasts, and trainings can feel overwhelming—especially when what you really need is space to think, feel, and connect.
Come explore the nuance with a community that gets it. Because just like hurt happens in community—so does healing, courage, and growth.
You remind your clients to invest in themselves.
This is your reminder to do the same.
The Innovative Therapist Community is ready to welcome you with open arms and cheer you on every step of the way.
Reclaim trust with your body and your work
Clarify your Zone of Genius and feel energized again
Connect with others who are walking the same path
Do it all in a space that values integrity, curiosity, and creativity
What if taking care of yourself didn’t have to feel so hard?
You don’t need more willpower. You need a different kind of motivation.
Experience what’s possible with my free 10-minute guided walk, designed to help you reconnect with gratitude for your body, how you want to feel, and what genuinely motivates you.
Just pop in your earbuds and press play. You can even listen while doing chores!
