Shawn Brisbane
Supportive counselor for family and parenting needs
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shawn
Shawn Brisbane is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania who focuses on family and parenting concerns among a wide range of issues. He offers straightforward support for stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and problems with sleep or eating. He also works with people facing relationship or intimacy difficulties, anger, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and other life transitions.
Shawn writes plainly and meets people where they are.
Background and approach
He aims to make the first steps into therapy feel safer and more manageable. Shawn brings ten years of practice experience to his work and uses practical talk and evidence-informed skills in sessions. He draws on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
Sessions focus on day-to-day coping skills, clearer communication, and slowly building routines that fit family life. He tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation. That can mean coaching around parenting stress, tackling sleep or eating problems, or sorting out how to handle grief and loss.
Shawn keeps language plain and direct so parents can use what they learn right away. Shawn wants therapy to feel practical. He supports people who have had rough experiences with counseling before and works to rebuild trust in the process.
He encourages honest talk and steady small steps toward change. Work with Shawn is available in English and delivered through a mix of online formats. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and cost varies with location and therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit family life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds affect current family and parenting dynamics. It is often used when relational patterns or attachment issues cause repeated conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shawn will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and recommend methods that suit their situation. That collaborative process helps shape sessions that feel relevant and practical for everyday family challenges.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy parents. Sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can connect from home or between commitments. These options make it easier to practice new skills in real time and to follow through on steps discussed in therapy without long travel or scheduling hurdles.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Next step
Talk to Shawn
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point