About Sean
Sean Horsley is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. He speaks English and Spanish and works with issues like relationship strain, parenting stress, sleep problems, and addiction-related concerns. Sean uses practical techniques to help people feel steadier and more capable in daily life.
He focuses on teaching skills people can use right away.
Background and approach
Sessions often include straightforward tools for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and coping with loss or chronic illness. He also works with people facing identity and intimacy questions and those dealing with guilt, shame, or burnout. Sean blends short-term goal work with longer-term skill building.
He uses methods such as cognitive behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thinking and dialectical strategies to manage intense feelings. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are part of how he helps people find direction and stay motivated. His approach is collaborative and practical.
He helps each person set clear goals and tracks progress over time. Parents and caregivers can expect concrete suggestions for reducing stress and improving family routines. Sean holds a Utah LCSW 128372-3501 and brings more than two decades of social work practice to sessions.
Many people appreciate that he keeps language simple and focuses on what will help most right now.
Online approaches that teach useful skills
Sean commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. He also draws on dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness for high-intensity feelings and relationship conflicts. Mindfulness therapy is used alongside these approaches to build awareness and reduce reactivity in daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review a person’s goals, preferences, and challenges, and then recommend methods to try. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is good for in-depth conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat work well for brief check-ins or between-session support. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English, Spanish