About Seán
Seán Harrington helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and challenges around parenting and family problems. He also supports people coping with grief, addictions, self-esteem concerns, intimacy issues, career strain, ADHD, and life changes. Seán is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - working in California with 26 years of professional experience.
Seán keeps sessions straightforward and practical. He encourages open talk about feelings and thoughts without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, useful steps you can try between meetings. He aims for clear goals you both agree on and track progress over time. His approach blends strategies from cognitive behavioral methods, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work.
That means clients often look at how thoughts affect mood, draw on personal motivation for change, and try brief, targeted experiments to test new ways of coping. Sessions may include skill practice, goal setting, and feedback about what is or isn’t working. Seán draws on long experience across settings to tailor sessions to each person.
He pays attention to family of origin concerns, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, first responder issues, and workplace or career pressures. He also works with grief, forgiveness, and recovery from betrayal and infidelity. People can expect a calm, steady presence aimed at practical change.
Seán invites straightforward conversation about what matters to the client and helps map simple next steps toward feeling better.
How his approaches work online
Seán often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice patterns of thinking that affect mood and behavior, then test small changes to those thoughts and actions. He also draws on motivational interviewing to help people clarify what matters most to them and build their own motivation for change. Solution-focused methods are used to set short-term goals and try practical experiments that can bring quick relief.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. He will discuss options with each person and adapt methods to match their goals, needs, and preferences. This decision is collaborative and may shift over time as progress is checked and goals are refined.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow a fuller conversation and visual connection, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins or writing through a problem, and text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options let people choose what fits their schedule and comfort while keeping therapy consistent and focused.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English