About Shawn
Prof. Shawn Young is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience. He holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and practices across Maine and New Hampshire.
He is also an Air Force veteran who has spent time overseas. He takes a warm, interactive approach in sessions. Conversations are respectful and free of stigmatizing labels.
He adapts his work to each person's needs and goals. Shawn draws on acceptance and commitment ideas, client-centered listening, mindfulness skills, motivational interviewing, and narrative methods.
How Shawn works
He mixes practical strategies with open conversation to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. He also supports those facing career strain, grief, trauma, addiction, and compassion fatigue. He has experience in higher education settings and understands challenges that affect students, faculty, and administrators.
His background as a veteran informs his perspective on military and first responder concerns, post-traumatic stress, and life transitions. Sessions focus on real-life change. Shawn works with clients on skills for sleep, eating, focus, parenting strain, anger, and navigating identity and discrimination.
He commonly helps people address abandonment, attachment, communication, isolation, and questions about life purpose. People who want practical tools and thoughtful conversation may find his style a good fit. He encourages an active partnership where the client's values guide the work and progress is measured by changes in daily life.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LICSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maine |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small, guided steps toward those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It is often useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy, giving people space to tell their story and arrive at their own solutions with the therapist's support. This approach can help with self-esteem, relationship worries, and identity questions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches focused attention and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep, eating patterns, and emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That exploration happens together over the first few sessions and can change as needs evolve.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let you keep visual connection for in-depth conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick updates, coaching-style support, and ongoing progress between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, study, or other commitments.
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