Shawn Mcgivern, LMHC
Massachusetts · 27 years in practice
Shawn Mcgivern is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Massachusetts with 27 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LMHC, Massachusetts
- 6656 · expires December 2027
- NPI
- 1912585993 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 27
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Shawn
Shawn Mcgivern is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Massachusetts with 27 years of clinical experience. She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside other practical methods to help people manage strong emotions and improve relationships. Her style is direct but compassionate, focusing on what a person needs right now.
Shawn helps people who are coping with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and stress. She also supports those dealing with eating and sleep problems, intimacy concerns, and self-esteem struggles.
Background and approach
Work often centers on communication, attachment issues, and life changes like divorce or career shifts. Sessions aim to make emotions easier to understand and act on. Shawn combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy with acceptance and cognitive strategies to reduce distress and increase valued action.
She pays attention to how past experiences shape current patterns and helps clients experiment with new ways of relating. Her practice emphasizes strengths and practical skills. People leave with clearer goals, better communication habits, and tools for everyday challenges such as procrastination, perfectionism, or caregiver stress.
Shawn also addresses focus areas like adoption and foster care, blended family issues, and aging-related concerns. She offers a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients can name their priorities and set realistic steps forward. Sessions are collaborative, and she adapts technique to fit each person’s needs and pace.
Therapy is offered in English to people located in Massachusetts by video, phone, chat, or messaging.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Shawn lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Shawn names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches for online emotional work
Shawn uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people identify and work through painful emotions that get in the way of connection and well-being. EFT focuses on feelings in the moment and on changing interaction patterns that keep problems stuck.She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, and then take purposeful steps toward meaningful values. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to look at how early relationships influence current patterns and to build healthier ways of relating.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Shawn takes a collaborative approach, listening to each person’s goals and tailoring techniques to match needs and preferences. Together they decide which methods make the most sense for healing and change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for varied schedules and comfort levels. Video is used for deeper, conversational work and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or lower bandwidth needs. Chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support, or when a written reflection feels easier. These options make it possible to keep therapy consistent while fitting into daily life.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Shawn address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy-related issues, eating and sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and career or life changes.
What is her therapy style like?
Shawn blends Emotionally-Focused Therapy with client-centered, acceptance, and cognitive approaches in a collaborative and empathetic way focused on emotions and communication.
How much experience does she have?
Shawn brings 27 years of clinical experience working with adults on a wide range of emotional and relationship concerns.
Where is Shawn licensed to practice?
She is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Massachusetts and lists her credential as MA LMHC.
Can therapy be conducted in other languages or from other countries?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Shawn provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Shawn?
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