- Anxiety and mood
- Relationship skills
- Values-based work
About Shawn
Shawn Mcgivern is an LMHC who brings 27 years of clinical experience to therapy. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, trauma recovery, and relationship struggles. Shawn emphasizes strengths and works with clients to build clearer communication and better emotional coping skills.
She creates an affirming environment that honors each person's story. Sessions aim to help people understand difficult emotions, increase self-compassion, and set small, practical goals. Shawn often helps with identity concerns, workplace stress, and life transitions where confidence and clarity feel hard to find.
Her work addresses eating and sleeping problems, perfectionism, procrastination, and imposter feelings. She also supports those coping with grief, intimacy issues, codependency, and separation or divorce. Shawn pays attention to attachment patterns and how early losses or adoption history can affect adult relationships.
Therapy is collaborative and tailored to each person. She uses approaches that encourage present-moment awareness, skill building, and deeper connection to values. Shawn helps people translate insights into day-to-day changes that improve function and relationships.
People who choose her practice can expect direct but compassionate talk, practical strategies, and space to reflect. She welcomes conversations about identity and LGBT concerns, and brings long experience to complex emotional and interpersonal issues.
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters most to you and taking small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts or feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns in intimacy and trust; it can help people change repeating relationship cycles and build safer ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with more useful behaviors and coping skills for problems like worry, low mood, and sleep trouble.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Shawn will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals and preferences. That includes trying techniques together and adjusting the plan as needs change.
The profile does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make therapy easier to fit into a schedule, allow shorter midweek check-ins, reduce travel time, and let people use approaches like skills practice and behavioral experiments from daily life. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, attachment-focused work, and CBT exercises to remote sessions so that insights turn into practical day-to-day changes.
Areas of focus
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does Shawn help with?
Shawn works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and recovery, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting and career concerns, and related areas such as codependency and communication difficulties.
What is Shawn's therapy style like?
Her approach is collaborative and empathetic. Sessions focus on building skills, exploring values, and using practical strategies to manage emotions and improve relationships.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Shawn has 27 years of clinical experience working with adults on a wide range of emotional and interpersonal issues.
What credential does Shawn hold and where does she practice?
She is an LMHC - Master of Arts, Licensed Mental Health Counselor - practicing in Massachusetts.
Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
The original profile does not specify session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Shawn?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.