About Sean
Sean Young is a licensed social worker with 28 years of clinical experience. He practices in Michigan and offers help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and other concerns. Sean aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people feeling overwhelmed.
He listens carefully and speaks plainly. He blends several approaches to match what each person needs, drawing on client-centered work to focus on the person's goals and on cognitive behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions are direct but warm, with an emphasis on building trust and clarity. Sean has long experience helping people cope after trauma and abuse, including work with military-related stress and related challenges. He also supports those navigating relationship strain, intimacy issues, self-esteem problems, sleep and eating concerns, and anger.
He pays attention to how past attachments and life events affect current patterns. In sessions he uses both short-term, solution-focused techniques and deeper psychodynamic exploration when it helps. That means practical steps for immediate relief and room to look at recurring patterns over time.
He explains options and partners with each person to choose what makes sense. Sean works with a wide range of issues including complex situations like co-morbidity, adoption and foster care concerns, first responder stress, and health-related challenges such as HIV / AIDS. He communicates in English and is available to international clients through online formats.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person and their goals. The therapist listens, reflects, and helps the person set the pace and direction of work. This approach is useful for building trust and for people who want a respectful, nonjudgmental space.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact. It offers specific exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and to build new habits, which can help with anxiety, sleep problems, and low mood.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy emphasizes understanding and shifting emotional responses that affect relationships and intimacy. It helps people name feelings, connect them to actions, and try new ways of relating when patterns become painful.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sean will discuss options and decide collaboratively which methods match someone’s needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying practical steps first or doing deeper exploration when needed, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps when visual connection matters, phone can fit a shorter check-in or low bandwidth, and chat or messaging suits people who prefer writing or need quick touches between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into different schedules and situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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