About Shawn
Shawn Alyea welcomes people who are tired of feeling stuck and need a steady, respectful presence. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 30 years of experience. Shawn aims to help clients find hope and small gains even in hard moments.
He brings warmth, compassion, and a bit of humor to sessions to ease difficult conversations. Shawn focuses on practical steps that match each person's goals. He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Narrative Therapy alongside client-centered principles and mindfulness tools.
How Shawn works
Sessions often include exercises, talk, and creative techniques to help people process feelings and make changes. People come to Shawn for many reasons. He works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship and intimacy-related concerns.
He also addresses ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, and challenges like abandonment, attachment issues, and caregiver stress. Shawn has experience helping people through life changes such as divorce, aging, parenting struggles, and the fallout of infidelity or betrayal. He also supports work on self-esteem, guilt, shame, impulsivity, isolation, and control issues.
His approach is practical, patient, and focused on what the client wants to achieve. Shawn has provided counseling in Oklahoma for three decades. He aims to be a steady guide while people work toward clearer thinking, healthier patterns, and renewed connection to what matters.
Shawn lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Shawn works with
The areas below are the ones Shawn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Shawn commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression. It is practical and action-oriented, often involving exercises or small experiments between sessions. He also uses Narrative Therapy, which helps people examine the stories they tell about themselves and consider alternative, more helpful ways of understanding their experiences.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Shawn collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. He adjusts tools over time so sessions stay relevant and effective for the client’s situation.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when someone has limited bandwidth or prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, reflective writing, or when a break-time session fits better into a busy day.
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