Shawn Alyea, LPC

Shawn Alyea is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Oklahoma with 30 years of experience. He works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and people coping with life changes and caregiving strain. Shawn also addresses ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem struggles.

Shawn uses practical, down-to-earth conversation and occasional humor to keep sessions grounded. He favors Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Narrative Therapy and mixes in mindfulness and motivational interviewing tools when they fit a person's goals. Sessions focus on clarifying what matters next, testing small changes, and tracking what helps.

He often helps people sort through loss, separation, abandonment, and the loneliness that follows big life shifts. He also supports those managing control issues, impulsivity, infidelity fallout, and the stresses of fatherhood or caregiving. Shawn works with concerns related to aging, attachment patterns, autism spectrum questions, shame and guilt, and compassion fatigue.

In practice he leans toward collaborative problem solving. That means checking what a person hopes to change, trying approaches that match those aims, and adjusting when something does not help. Sessions look at thoughts, behaviors, and the stories people tell about themselves.

Shawn offers services in English and is open to working with people both inside and outside the United States. He describes his work as direct and human; sessions aim to make actions and next steps clearer rather than to promise a particular outcome.

How Shawn blends approaches for online work