About Sean
Sean Gardner is a licensed counselor with ten years of clinical experience. He holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and carries LPC and LMHC credentials listed for Arizona and Hawaii. Sean aims to help people feeling stuck regain a sense of presence and connection in their lives.
He draws on his background in the military and emergency medical work to stay calm under pressure and to meet people where they are.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps you can take between meetings. Sean uses everyday language and direct tools to reduce anxiety and manage stress. In therapy he blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness skills.
That mix helps people notice unhelpful patterns, identify values, and practice small behavior changes. He also uses client-centered listening to make space for each person’s experience. Sean has worked in inpatient settings with adolescents and in social work roles with veterans, giving him experience with trauma, grief, addiction, and first responder concerns.
He has delivered online psychotherapy for several years and supports people facing relationship conflict, life transitions, and mood challenges. People often come for help with anxiety, stress, sleep and eating concerns, ADHD, and self-esteem struggles. Sean also works with intimacy-related issues, family problems, and career stress.
He offers sessions in English and accepts international clients for online work.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Sean blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in practical ways. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and practice small actions that match those values. CBT looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches tools to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve sleep.He also uses client-centered listening to create a respectful space where clients feel heard. Work is collaborative - the therapist and client pick methods together based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. That means approaches can shift over time as goals change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules. Video is useful for longer work and face-to-face conversation, phone can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can support quick check-ins or ongoing practice. These options are intended to make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into daily life while keeping the focus on progress and skill-building.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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