About Shawn
Shawn Alyea is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma with 30 years of experience. He offers warm, straightforward care and uses humor when appropriate to help people through difficult moments. He emphasizes respect and compassion and aims to help people find hope and forward motion during painful times.
Shawn believes growth often comes from life’s hard parts. He centers the relationship with each person and works toward practical goals rather than abstract labels.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on steps that make daily life easier. He often combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Narrative Therapy with expressive techniques. That blend helps people change unhelpful thoughts, reshape personal stories, and practice new behaviors.
Shawn adapts his methods to fit a person’s goals and pace. Over three decades he has seen a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, ADHD, bipolar challenges, and caregiver strain. He also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment, divorce, isolation, and forgiveness.
Shawn works with people across the lifespan and brings practical strategies alongside supportive listening. He encourages clients to try approaches, notice what helps, and adjust as needed. He aims to walk alongside each person toward clearer choices and more manageable days.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Shawn often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT breaks problems into small, manageable steps and provides tools people can practice between sessions, which suits video or phone work.He also uses Narrative Therapy to help people reframe their personal stories and separate themselves from problems. Narrative work focuses on identifying themes in someone’s life and trying new ways of telling and living those stories, an approach that fits well with conversation-based formats like chat or video.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shawn will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps. He aims to match techniques to a person’s needs, preferences, and pace so sessions feel useful and focused.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls make it possible to have face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers voice only. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for shorter check-ins, notes between sessions, and ongoing reflection without scheduling a full call.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English