About Shaun
Shaun Underwood is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people with stress and anxiety among many other concerns. He uses a warm, interactive style aimed at helping someone feel heard and understood. Shaun works in English and offers sessions to people both in the UK and internationally.
Shaun has four years of clinical experience and holds BACP, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He has worked with people facing depression, relationship difficulties, parenting strain, career challenges, addictions, bereavement and trauma.
Background and approach
He also has experience supporting those dealing with sleep and eating issues, low self-esteem and coping with life changes. His approach is person-centred and integrative. That means sessions focus on the person in front of him and draw on different methods to fit each individual.
He often uses elements from cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and dialectical behaviour work when they suit the person’s goals. Shaun aims to help people identify practical tools and coping strategies they can use between sessions. Conversations are collaborative and paced to what feels comfortable.
He emphasises empathy, respect and sensitivity while helping people take small steps towards change. Sessions are available as video calls, phone appointments, live chat or text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled according to availability.
How Shaun’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then commit to actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, low mood and motivation. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with practical exercises to reduce distress and change behaviours; it is often used for anxiety, depression and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shaun will discuss different methods and agree a way forward together based on what the client wants to achieve. Sessions are collaborative, with goals reviewed as progress is made and methods adjusted to fit the person’s needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, telephone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat or messaging can be used for shorter check-ins, written reflections or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to maintain continuity of care across locations and schedules, while keeping the focus on practical work and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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