About Shawn
Shawn Brisbane helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and intimacy-related concerns. He also supports those facing sleep or eating problems, parenting strain, anger, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and coping with life changes. Shawn is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Pennsylvania.
He uses straightforward talk, gentle curiosity, and practical skills to help people find relief. Sessions focus on real-life tools such as behavior changes, emotion regulation skills, and clearer communication.
How Shawn works
Shawn adapts his approach to each person's situation instead of using the same plan for everyone. Shawn draws on several therapeutic approaches to shape sessions. He blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive-behavioral techniques and emotion-focused methods when they fit a client's needs.
Attachment-based strategies and client-centered listening guide work on relationships and trust. He keeps language plain and sessions collaborative. Clients can expect short-term skill-building alongside deeper work when it feels appropriate.
The goal is to reduce immediate distress while building habits that help over time. With 10 years of experience as an LPC, Shawn has worked with a wide range of concerns including caregiver stress, body image, adoption and foster care issues, chronic illness, codependency, communication problems, and blended family stress. He offers sessions in English and practices in Pennsylvania.
Shawn lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values-based action so clients can make meaningful changes even when emotions are strong. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical steps to shift unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand patterns that grew out of early relationships and then try new ways of relating and trusting in current relationships.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is noticed.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people send thoughts between sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can use the format that fits their schedule and needs.
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