About Shawn
Shawn Brisbane is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania who focuses on stress and anxiety among many other concerns. He approaches sessions with directness and empathy. He recognizes how hard it can be to try therapy again after a poor experience and aims to make each conversation feel clear and respectful.
Shawn draws on ten years of clinical experience to help people manage worries, low mood, and problems with sleep and eating.
Background and approach
He also supports those coping with trauma, addictions, grief, anger, attention differences, and the strain of caregiving. He frames work in practical steps so clients can see small changes over time. In sessions he adapts his style to each person.
Some people want structured tools to change thought patterns. Others need space to reflect and make sense of painful history. Shawn uses a mix of approaches to match what a person needs on a given day.
He combines techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy with attachment-informed conversations and client-centered listening. That mix allows him to teach concrete skills while also holding emotional material. The goal is to help people manage symptoms and move toward what matters most to them.
Starting therapy begins with a short questionnaire and scheduling step. Shawn uses a subscription model for appointments that can be canceled at any time, and he conducts sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take small actions toward what matters. ACT is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep problems. It often involves short exercises between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating and managing strong emotions.Choosing which approach to use is a collaborative process. Shawn will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then try methods that fit the person. He often combines techniques so the work is practical while also addressing deeper relational or emotional issues.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are good for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is an issue or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between appointments or have shorter, focused exchanges during a busy week. These options help people fit therapeutic work into real life and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- 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
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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