About Shawn
Shawn Brisbane is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and low self-esteem. He works with clients dealing with depression, relationship strain, grief, and challenges like sleep or eating problems. Shawn aims to make starting therapy feel manageable and respectful.
He uses clear, practical conversation to learn what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on goals that the client sets, not a one-size plan.
Background and approach
Shawn adapts his approach to match how someone prefers to work and how they respond over time. Shawn draws from several therapy approaches to guide sessions. He blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive behavioral methods to help people notice thoughts and build helpful actions.
Attachment-informed work and client-centered listening shape how he explores relational patterns and emotional needs. Over the past 10 years he has worked with adults on a wide range of concerns, including ADHD, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, and parenting stress. He emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes and helps people try concrete skills between sessions.
Shawn practices in Pennsylvania as an LPC and offers sessions in English. He acknowledges that trying therapy takes courage and aims to create an atmosphere of respect and sensitivity. If someone needs support for phobias or other anxiety-related problems, he incorporates gradual steps and practical strategies into treatment.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then focus on actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, avoidance, and motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day struggles. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current reactions and helps people understand and change recurring relational patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Shawn will talk with the client about goals and preferences and try methods that fit. If something does not feel right, he adapts the plan and tests different strategies together so the work stays useful and grounded in real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video can mirror an in-person conversation when face-to-face contact helps. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let clients share short updates, try quick skills between sessions, or check in during the week without a full session.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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