About Shawn
Shawn Ashworth is a Maryland-based therapist with more than 30 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps that reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning. Shawn is an MD and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and she brings that combined perspective to her sessions.
She uses a warm, collaborative style that centers on a client's goals. Sessions look at strengths and small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Shawn helps people clarify what matters, set realistic steps, and track progress between meetings. Her work often addresses relationship strain, anger, low self-esteem, and attention-related challenges such as ADHD. She also supports concerns around body image, commitment issues, communication problems, divorce and separation, and social anxiety.
These topics are tackled with straightforward strategies and goal-oriented plans. Shawn commonly blends solution-focused techniques and cognitive-behavioral ideas to change unhelpful patterns. She pays attention to how family dynamics affect current problems and tailors interventions to each person’s situation.
The emphasis is on what works now and what will help in everyday life. People who choose Shawn can expect clear plans, homework that fits their routine, and regular check-ins on progress. Her sessions aim to give tools for coping with stress, rebuilding confidence, and improving relationships in practical ways.
How evidence-based techniques translate online
Shawn commonly uses solution-focused work, which centers on small, concrete steps toward a chosen goal. That approach helps when you want quick, practical changes for stress, anxiety, or relationship problems.She also relies on cognitive-behavioral ideas to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT-style tasks can include short experiments, thought records, and behavior plans that are easy to review during a session or over messaging.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Shawn will work with each person to pick techniques that fit their goals and daily life, and she adapts methods as progress is tracked together.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation, while phone calls work well if bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging make it possible to share quick updates, do short homework reviews, or fit a brief session into a busy day. These options offer flexibility so therapy can be shaped around work, family, and other routines rather than the other way around.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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