Lynne Rifkin Shine, LMHC, CRC, has been practicing personal counseling since 1984. She is a graduate of Boston University where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Rehabilitation Counseling. After she became a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, she began a 13-year professional affiliation with Spectrum Human Services.

In 1994, Shine founded Audubon Counseling to provide counseling care services to adults, children, and teens throughout Western New York. The private practice has continued to grow thanks to direct referrals from physicians, attorneys, businesses, schools, and peer counselors.

Shine specializes in working with clients struggling with depression and anxiety related to marriage and divorce, parenting, infertility, infidelity, and grief and loss. She has been featured at seminars as well as in the local media for her expertise on numerous counseling topics.