Adult psychotherapy

Every path through life is unique, ever-changing, challenging and complex, and there are many reasons to seek professional guidance. Psychotherapy can be an invaluable asset for improving the quality of relationships, overcoming anxiety or depression, working through unresolved childhood issues, healing from trauma, processing grief, managing stress, managing anger, gaining a healthier body image, working through creative blocks, and cultivating personal insight and growth.

Shawn’s approach -

Shawn provides a comfortable, friendly, supportive therapeutic environment. He works collaboratively with his clients, offering them guidance and encouragement to explore their lives and gain clarity by drawing from their own experience, knowledge and inherent wisdom.

Shawn uses proven, evidence-based treatment approaches including cognitive-behavioral, existential/psychodynamic, and mindfulness practices.

Shawn strives to recognize and honor the depth and complexity of every human life. While he welcomes those seeking brief counseling to simply address current life problems and will work hard with them to develop effective strategies to find more immediate relief, to those who are willing and courageous enough, Shawn offers a gentle, friendly invitation to engage in the rich, rewarding, but at times arduous process of deep self-exploration.

Shawn can provide guidance along a less-worn path that aims at integration and wholeness, a process more about working deeply rather than quickly. Engaging in this deeper work is a chance to pause and reflect carefully on the many levels and facets of life, an opportunity to look beyond symptoms to discover their internal and external origins, and to develop a more sophisticated and individualized way to understand and contend with suffering. It is a chance to cast light on the more shadowy aspects of the psyche, to not only discover unconscious, unrecognized, or denied aspects of one’s self that cause psychic tension and stifle progression, but to also reveal hidden strength, wisdom, and creativity.

Positive outcomes of more in-depth psychotherapy tend to be long lasting and often include profound improvements in the resolution of past painful experiences, greater resilience, recognition of innate potential, ability to utilize talents and abilities, increased sense of meaning and contentment in life’s activities, in pursuing long-term goals, enjoyment of challenges and pleasure in accomplishments, empathy for others, and improved interpersonal assertiveness and effectiveness*.

*Shedler, J. (2010). The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy. American psychologist, 65(2), 98.

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