About Shawnean
Shawnean Callihan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri with 29 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting strains, and major life changes. Her work also addresses depression, grief, sleep problems, anger, and low self-esteem.
She uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. Shawnean focuses on clear goals and small steps that build confidence and improve day-to-day functioning. Conversations emphasize what is happening now and what can change in the near term.
Background and approach
Shawnean pays attention to communication problems, feelings of isolation, and the impact of trauma. She also offers support around ADHD, postpartum depression, and issues related to neurodevelopmental differences such as autism and Asperger syndrome. Her practice includes help for people navigating blended family dynamics, divorce and separation, and parenting stress.
Clients can expect a calm, respectful space to talk through difficult moments. Shawnean uses Client-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral, and Solution-Focused techniques to shape sessions around each person’s needs. She works with individuals aiming to strengthen relationships, manage emotions, or find a clearer direction in life.
Shawnean combines long clinical experience with a collaborative style. She helps people identify practical coping skills and achievable changes. The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in the room and their experience. The therapist listens without judging, helps people name their feelings, and supports self-directed growth. This approach is useful when someone needs understanding and space to make personal choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and build new behaviors, which helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, achievable goals and puts energy into what works now rather than digging deep into the past.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Shawnean collaborates with each person to decide which mix of methods fits their goals and preferences. That may mean trying one approach for a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video is useful when visual connection matters, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing prompts. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments and practice new skills between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English