Sean Horsley
Practical family-focused therapy with skill building
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Utah
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sean
Sean Horsley is a licensed clinical social worker with more than two decades of practice. He focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship problems, and other life changes. Sean uses straightforward skill-building to help people manage day-to-day challenges.
He speaks English and Spanish and works with clients from Utah and beyond. Sean keeps sessions practical and goal-oriented. He teaches clear coping tools for mood, sleep, anger, and substance concerns.
Background and approach
He also addresses blended family issues, communication problems, caregiver stress, and chronic illness challenges. Sessions may involve individual work, couples focus, or family conversations. His methods draw on several evidence-based approaches.
Techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy help people spot and shift unhelpful thinking. Mindfulness practices support calm, focus, and stress management. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies are used to build motivation and set achievable steps.
Sean aims to make progress feel concrete. Therapy emphasizes learning new skills and trying them between meetings. He frames steps in everyday terms so parents can apply strategies at home.
The aim is better functioning, clearer communication, and more manageable routines. With 23 years as an LCSW, Sean blends practical tools with listening and problem-solving. He works with many family-related concerns including parenting, intimacy, and family conflict.
His approach is straightforward, collaborative, and focused on small changes that add up.
Approach-driven online work for family and stress concerns
Sean commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based techniques in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing patterns of thought and behavior, then learning practical ways to change them to reduce anxiety, depression, and relationship conflict. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower stress, improve sleep, and help with emotional regulation.He may also draw on motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas to set small, realistic goals and build momentum. Choosing the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each client to pick approaches that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life, and will adjust methods as progress is made.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options add flexibility for parents juggling schedules and for people living outside Utah. Remote sessions allow the same skill teaching and goal-setting used in person while fitting into busy routines and varied locations.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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