About Shawnean
Shawnean Callihan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri with 29 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. Her approach is calm and straightforward, aimed at practical steps that make daily life easier.
Clients meet someone who listens first and helps name what is most pressing. Shawnean uses clear tools to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and manage anger.
How Shawnean works
She also addresses attention challenges, low self-esteem, and career-related stress. Her background includes long experience with relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, blended family issues, and communication problems. She also works with people dealing with postpartum depression, trauma reactions, and seasonal mood shifts.
Intellectual disability and autism spectrum concerns are additional areas of focus. In sessions she draws from client-centered ideas to follow each person's pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot patterns of thought and change them with realistic practice.
Solution-focused techniques help set short-term goals and track progress. Shawnean aims for therapy that feels useful from week to week. She helps people build coping skills, improve daily routines, and find clearer direction when life feels stuck.
Sessions are offered in English and tailored to individual needs.
Shawnean lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Shawnean works with
The areas below are the ones Shawnean 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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 29 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Shawnean blends client-centered work with structured techniques to meet specific problems. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and following their pace, which helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort out feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try strategies that fit their day-to-day life, and adjust methods over time. Decisions about techniques are made together so the work feels relevant and doable.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and have fuller conversations, while phone sessions may work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text are good for shorter check-ins or when someone prefers writing their thoughts. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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