About Shawn
Shawn Brisbane is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and trauma. He also supports concerns such as self-esteem, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, anger, ADHD, and coping with major life changes. Shawn works with clear, direct conversation and practical strategies to make daily life feel more manageable.
Shawn uses a mix of approaches to fit each person's needs.
Background and approach
He draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits. He also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice their values and take small steps toward them. Attachment-focused work guides conversations about patterns that come from early relationships.
Sessions emphasize straightforward goals and usable skills. Shawn keeps explanations simple and focuses on what can change now. He pays attention to emotional safety and works at the client’s pace.
Treatment plans are shaped together, and goals are reviewed as progress is made. Shawn brings ten years of professional experience to his practice in Pennsylvania and holds the LPC credential, Licensed Professional Counselor. He aims to create a respectful space where people can try new ways of coping.
Practical tools, brief skill-building, and steady support are central to his work. People who are worn out by repeated setbacks often come for help rebuilding confidence and daily routines. Shawn can offer structured exercises, communication practice, and relapse-prevention ideas for addictions and mood concerns.
He explains steps clearly and focuses on concrete change.
Approach choices and online therapy
Shawn commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take committed action even when hard emotions appear.He also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns, especially when connection or trust is a concern. Together the therapist and client decide which approaches to try based on the client's goals, preferences, and how they respond to early sessions. That collaborative process helps tailor techniques to each person.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls suit longer therapy sessions and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, practicing skills between sessions, or when a flexible, on-the-go option is needed.
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What this counselor 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