About Seán
Seán Harrington is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, ADHD, grief, and trauma. He speaks directly and calmly, making it easier for a worried parent to understand options and next steps. He encourages small first steps and respects how hard it can be to begin therapy.
He draws on 26 years of experience to help clients untangle family conflict, parenting strains, and problems that come from past abuse or trauma.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and practical strategies rather than long explanations. Seán aims to make sessions feel manageable and useful from the first meeting. His approach uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and change patterns that keep problems going.
He also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change, and Solution-Focused work to build simple, realistic next steps. These methods are explained in plain language and tailored to each person. In sessions he listens for what matters most to the client and suggests small experiments to try between meetings.
He helps parents deal with fatigue and guilt, supports people facing workplace or relationship strain, and works with those coping with loss or feeling stuck. The emphasis is on steady progress and practical tools. Seán invites people to take a single step forward and see how therapy fits.
He meets by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging depending on what the client prefers and finds useful.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Seán commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to guide online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety or low mood. Motivational Interviewing focuses on a persons own reasons to change and can be useful for addresssing addictions, motivation, and ambivalence.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. He will listen to your goals and preferences, suggest methods that fit those priorities, and adjust the plan as you progress. The therapist and client decide together which techniques to emphasize based on what works in real life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options aim to make care more flexible and easier to attend.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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