About Shawn
Shawn Alyea is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 30 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and life changes. He brings a compassionate, down-to-earth style and often uses light humor to ease difficult conversations. Shawn aims to create a respectful space where people feel valued as they talk through what matters most to them.
Shawn focuses on practical approaches that link thoughts, feelings, and actions. He commonly uses cognitive behavioral and narrative methods along with mindfulness and motivational interviewing tools.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple exercises and conversational techniques that people can try between meetings. Over three decades Shawn has worked with a wide range of concerns, including relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, caregiver stress, and isolation. He also helps people facing abandonment, aging challenges, divorce, forgiveness, and impulsivity.
He describes therapy as a collaborative walk toward clearer goals and more manageable routines. Shawn works with adults across many stages of life and is comfortable integrating expressive activities when they fit someone’s needs. He accepts clients in Oklahoma and also offers services to international clients in English.
His long career includes supervisory roles and a steady focus on compassionate care. People who want straightforward conversation, practical tools, and a respectful therapeutic relationship may find his approach useful. Shawn encourages clients to set small, achievable goals and to notice progress over time.
How Shawn’s Approaches Work Online
Shawn often blends cognitive behavioral techniques with client-centered and mindfulness work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Client-centered therapy centers on listening and respect, letting the person guide goals while the therapist offers steady support. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and increase calm.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Shawn will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life, and then suggest methods to try together. He treats therapy as a collaborative effort and adjusts strategies based on what is most useful for the individual.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging fit people who prefer writing or need brief, frequent contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and changing routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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