Shawn Mcgivern, LMHC
Massachusetts · 27 years in practice
Shawn Mcgivern is a licensed mental health counselor with 27 years of 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 with 27 years of experience. She centers her work on helping people face anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, and the everyday pressures that interfere with living fully. Her style is straightforward and warm, and she aims to make sessions feel understandable and usable for busy lives.
Shawn blends Existential ideas with practical tools so clients can find meaning while tackling problems. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and build different habits.
Background and approach
Attachment-based and client-centered approaches guide work on relationships and self-worth. Typical sessions focus on managing stress, grief, eating and sleeping concerns, parenting strain, and issues of identity and intimacy. She also supports people facing career crossroads, codependency, abandonment wounds, and the fallout from separation or divorce.
There is attention to both immediate coping and longer term growth. Shawn works with people across a wide range of life stages and concerns, including caregiving stress, aging questions, and body image struggles. She uses clear, practical strategies like skills practice, communication work, and values-based goal setting to help clients move forward.
Based in Massachusetts, Shawn offers chat, text, phone, and video sessions. She invites prospective clients to take a short matching questionnaire to get started and to schedule sessions that fit their lives.
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
- 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)
- 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 and online care
Shawn uses Existential therapy to help people talk about meaning, choice, and the bigger questions that shape how they live. This approach can help when life transitions, identity struggles, or a sense of emptiness make it hard to move forward.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and taking small actions that align with personal values. That method is useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation problems. Attachment-Based Therapy informs work on relationship patterns and trust, helping people understand how early bonds affect present communication and closeness.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Shawn will work collaboratively to match methods to each person's goals, preferences, and needs. Together the client and therapist decide which techniques feel most helpful and adjust over time as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is good for in-depth work and face-to-face conversation, phone can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth situations, and chat or text support short updates or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, or other busy routines.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Shawn address?
She helps people with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress, anger, self-esteem, career worries, and coping with life changes.
What is Shawn's therapy style like?
Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. She combines Existential thinking with practical methods to help people clarify values and build new habits.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Shawn has 27 years of clinical experience working with a broad range of emotional and relationship concerns.
What credentials and location are listed for Shawn?
She holds an MA and is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Massachusetts.
Can I work with Shawn if I live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered in English and Shawn is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Shawn offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are costs handled for sessions?
Costs vary by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Shawn?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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