About Sean
Sean DiMaria is a licensed clinical social worker (LISW-CP) based in South Carolina. He has eight years of clinical experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, ADHD, and related concerns. He also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, caregiving stress, grief, and issues with self-esteem.
Sean uses straightforward, practical conversations to help people identify what’s getting in the way and try new ways of coping. He draws on tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance-based work to help people notice thoughts and create small behavior changes.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. His background includes group facilitation on topics like resilience, empathy, and self-care. He leads support groups that focus on parenting, emotional health, and sustaining motivation.
He also creates educational resources and runs webinars aimed at skills people can use between sessions. Sean pays attention to cultural and religious differences when planning care. He aims to match interventions to each person’s values, goals, and daily demands.
This can include building routines for better sleep, strategies for managing anger, and skills for steadying self-worth. People who want a mix of short-term skills and longer-term work often find his approach useful. He offers video, phone, chat, and text-based sessions, and helps people decide which format fits their schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low motivation, and persistent worry. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete strategies to change patterns that cause distress. It often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and anger. Attachment-Based Therapy attends to how early relationships shape expectations and emotional responses and can be helpful for intimacy, abandonment issues, and relationship strain.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit the person's needs. That collaborative process means techniques can change over time as progress and life demands evolve.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is good for deeper conversational work and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, skill practice, or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options aim to offer flexibility and continuity so people can engage with therapy in the way that suits them best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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