About Shawn
Prof. Shawn Young is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 15 years of practice. He has worked as a therapist, counselor, and life coach and brings experience from clinical work and higher education.
He is based in Maine and has also served in the Air Force and spent time overseas. He helps people manage stress and anxiety and addresses mood concerns like depression and bipolar symptoms.
Background and approach
He also works with people on relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, and career or life-purpose questions. Additional focuses include addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, ADHD, and struggles linked to identity and discrimination. His style is described as warm and interactive.
He emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and aims to avoid stigmatizing labels in conversations. Sessions are tailored to each person's needs, mixing different methods to match goals and preferences. Shawn draws on perspectives from acceptance and commitment approaches, mindfulness, client-centered care, motivational interviewing, and narrative and psychodynamic ideas.
In practice this means helping people notice what matters to them, telling and reworking their life stories, and using skills to manage difficult thoughts and feelings. He also brings experience from more than a decade in higher education, so he understands some of the pressures on students, faculty, and staff.
People who want practical, collaborative work on anxiety, life transitions, or relationship strain may find his approach fits their needs.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice their thoughts and pick actions that match their values. Online ACT work often focuses on identifying what matters to you and practicing small steps toward those goals. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental conversation where the therapist listens and reflects so the person can explore their own solutions and sense of self.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs and together you will decide what methods to try. That collaborative process may combine ACT, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, or narrative techniques depending on what fits best.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for full sessions with face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets you share thoughts between meetings. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire, Maine
- Languages
- English
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