About Shawn
Shawn Beard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania. He brings ten years of clinical experience and uses a warm, interactive style to help people who are dealing with stress and anxiety. Shawn emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions.
Shawn focuses on practical, goal-oriented work. He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and to practice different ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and tailored to what each person needs. He also addresses relationship concerns, self-esteem, career questions, and coping with life changes. Shawn helps people work through anger, depression, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue.
He pays attention to patterns rooted in family of origin and separation or divorce when those issues come up. Shawn meets people who are dealing with guilt, shame, isolation, jealousy, and struggles around money or midlife transitions. He also works with men’s issues and those exploring non-monogamous relationship styles.
Hearing-impaired clients are listed among his focus areas. In each session he helps clients identify strengths and small steps they can take. The goal is to build skills that make daily life more manageable and to support clearer decision making.
Shawn frames therapy as a collaborative effort toward what matters most to the client.
How Shawn Uses CBT Online and What to Expect
Shawn uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice thoughts and behaviors that keep problems stuck and to practice small, concrete changes. CBT sessions often involve identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, testing them with experiments or homework, and building new coping skills for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns.He approaches therapy as a collaborative process. Shawn will work with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals and comfort level, and he adjusts the plan as progress unfolds. Figuring out the right mix of tools is part of the work they do together.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video sessions let people read nonverbal cues and do longer, in-depth work. Phone sessions can be easier when video isn’t needed or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or practicing skills between longer visits. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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