Shawn Mays

Shawn Mays is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who uses a person-centered approach to help people rebuild after loss, change, or emotional overwhelm. She frames therapy as a collaborative process where the client leads, and she offers steady guidance as they sort through what matters most. Shawn emphasizes practical steps alongside emotional understanding so clients can make real changes that fit their lives.

Shawn brings 14 years of experience working with adults and young adults through major life transitions. She concentrates on concerns such as grief, depression, anxiety, stress, ADHD, low self-esteem, parenting strain, and trauma and abuse. Women’s issues are listed among her focus areas and are naturally woven into conversations about identity, relationships, and life purpose.

Her approach blends gently exploring early attachment and family of origin patterns with tools to manage day-to-day symptoms. She uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and solution-focused strategies to create small, achievable habits. Mindfulness practices are added when helpful to steady attention and reduce reactivity.

Sessions are aimed at helping people understand how past experiences shape current patterns, and then building practical moves to change those patterns. She also offers support for caregiver stress, workplace strain, feelings of emptiness, and isolation. Shawn works in English and accepts clients who live outside the United States.

To begin, she asks people to reflect on what they most want to change and bring that into early sessions. The work is paced to the person and focused on concrete steps that make daily life more manageable.

How these approaches translate to online care

Shawn often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening closely and following the client's lead so they set the pace and goals. This approach helps when people need a steady space to sort through grief, identity questions, or life changes.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT tools can be used to reduce racing thoughts, manage anxiety, and build routines that change mood and behavior.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. Shawn treats approach selection as a collaborative process and will check in about what feels useful. Together the client and therapist decide which methods to try and adjust based on progress and preference.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people balance therapy with work, family, or caregiving responsibilities while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady emotional support.