Sean Young
Skilled, direct, and compassionate care
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sean
Sean Young is a licensed master social worker who brings 28 years of clinical experience to his practice in Michigan. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or family challenges. He also helps those dealing with trauma, addictions, grief, and struggles around intimacy and self-esteem.
Sean uses plain language and steady guidance so conversations stay focused and practical. He favors a warm and direct style in sessions.
Background and approach
That means he listens first, then offers clear suggestions and small, achievable steps. Sessions tend to focus on what is happening now and what can change next. Many clients appreciate a straightforward tone paired with respect and honesty.
Sean draws from several established approaches to shape treatment. He uses client-centered techniques to follow a person’s priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy supports understanding and shifting strong feelings in close relationships. Sessions may address a wide range of life challenges such as coping with loss, managing anger, navigating family problems, healing from trauma, or dealing with sleep and eating difficulties. He also works with concerns like abandonment, attachment patterns, communication problems, forgiveness, and HIV/AIDS related issues.
People who prefer clear direction and practical strategies may find his style a good fit. He explains ideas in everyday terms and collaborates on goals that fit each person’s life. The approach aims to make steady progress in ways that feel manageable.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and personal challenges
Sean often uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep the person’s priorities central. This approach focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people name their goals so work stays relevant to their life. It is useful when someone needs a supportive space to sort through feelings.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT helps people test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, or trouble sleeping. Emotionally-Focused Therapy can be added when relationship patterns and strong emotions are the focus, helping people notice and change how they respond to each other.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and suggest options to try. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is working and what is not.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options offer flexibility for busy schedules and for those who prefer not to travel. They let people keep therapy consistent while fitting sessions into family routines and everyday life.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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