About Shawn
Prof. Shawn Young is a licensed clinical social worker with over 15 years of experience. He holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and practices from Maine while also holding licensure in New Hampshire.
He has worked as a therapist, counselor, and life coach and brings a practical, straightforward style to sessions. He has supported people facing depression, anxiety, relationship and family problems, career challenges, and ADHD. He has experience with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and issues around identity and discrimination.
Background and approach
His background includes more than a decade working in higher education and time served in the Air Force, which informs his understanding of academic and military-related stresses. Shawn keeps sessions warm and interactive. He aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and avoids stigmatizing labels.
He adapts conversation and plans to what each person needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all method. His work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered approaches, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative ideas. In practice this means focusing on values, present-moment awareness, and small, doable changes that fit daily life.
People who want clear, collaborative guidance tend to do well with his style. He frames goal-setting as teamwork and balances supportive listening with practical strategies. His combined clinical and coaching experience makes him comfortable helping people take concrete next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action toward them. It helps people who feel stuck or overwhelmed by using small, values-driven steps rather than trying to eliminate every difficult thought or feeling.Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience. The therapist listens without judgment and helps the person find their own solutions, which can be useful for building self-esteem and improving relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. He will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, needs, and preferences, and adjust those methods over time as things change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper dialogue, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while keeping the focus on progress and practical steps.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire, Maine
- Languages
- English
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