Shaun Underwood, BACP
4 years in practice
Shaun Underwood is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people facing stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, depression and major life changes.
License and registration
- BACP
- 395505 · expires October 2026
- Years in practice
- 4
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Shaun
Shaun Underwood is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people facing stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, depression and major life changes. He also helps with addiction, grief, trauma and a wide range of relationship and intimacy concerns.
Shaun works with clients around work and career problems, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting pressures and neurodiversity-related challenges such as autism and ADHD. Shaun describes his approach as warm and interactive.
Background and approach
He uses a person-centred style that puts the client’s experience first. Sessions aim to be practical and tailored, not a one-size-fits-all programme. Shaun helps people find tools and coping strategies that suit their situation and goals.
He blends ideas from several well-known approaches to shape each session to the person in front of him. This includes existential thinking that looks at meaning and choice, cognitive behavioural ideas for spotting patterns, and attachment-based thinking about close relationships. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques are also used to help people take values-based steps.
Shaun has four years of clinical experience and holds BACP as a listed credential. He offers support for many additional concerns such as abandonment, body image, chronic pain, caregiver stress, codependency and coping after disasters. He works with people who identify as LGBT and with those facing bipolar-related difficulties.
Sessions are offered in English and available remotely as well as in-person. Shaun welcomes international clients and aims to work collaboratively so each person can move forward at their own pace.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Shaun lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Shaun names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
How Shaun blends approaches for online therapy
Existential therapy looks at meaning, choice and how people make sense of difficult events; it can help when life feels confusing or empty and when someone wants to find clearer direction. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and on taking actions that match personal values, which can help with anxiety, depression and motivation. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns and can be useful for people having repeating difficulties in close relationships.Finding the right combination of approaches is a shared process. Shaun will work together with each person to test what helps, adjust the focus as needed and agree on goals and practical steps. This collaborative stance means sessions change if different needs emerge over time.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets people keep non-verbal cues and a stronger sense of face-to-face contact. Phone sessions can be quicker to arrange and use less bandwidth. Live chat or messaging suit shorter check-ins, reflection between sessions or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit around work, childcare and travel.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Shaun support?
He supports a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting and career problems, and neurodiversity-related challenges such as autism and ADHD.
What is his general therapy style?
The style is warm, interactive and person-centred. Shaun works collaboratively to find practical tools and approaches that fit each person.
How much experience does he have?
Shaun has four years of clinical experience working with a broad range of presenting issues.
What credentials and location are listed?
He lists BACP as a credential and practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English, and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are offered?
Shaun offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging as ways to work together remotely.
How are costs handled?
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