Shawn King

Shawn King is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, LCMHC, practicing in New Hampshire. She brings nine years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, and parenting concerns. Shawn aims to treat everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while supporting people as they take steps toward change.

Her approach centers on helping the nervous system settle so people can connect more fully with daily life. She uses trauma-informed and polyvagal-informed ideas alongside somatic techniques to help reduce intense reactions. These methods are used in simple, practical ways tailored to each person.

Shawn combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to shape each session. She also draws on Emotionally-Focused and Mindfulness approaches when helpful. Sessions focus on clear goals and doable strategies for change.

Clients can expect a collaborative process where Shawn listens first and adapts the plan to their needs. She works in straightforward language and helps people practice skills between sessions. The work may include breathing and body-based exercises, thinking-pattern shifts, and relationship-focused conversations.

Shawn has experience with a wide range of concerns including attachment issues, caregiver stress, communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, mood and panic disorders, post-traumatic stress, pregnancy and childbirth, self-love, social anxiety, and women’s issues. She offers services in English in New Hampshire and draws on her years of clinical work to guide each person’s path forward.

Approaches that translate well to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It focuses on small, meaningful steps and willingness to lean into change rather than trying to get rid of every unwanted thought. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behavior interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, mood concerns, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an open, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist follows the person's lead and reflects their experience to promote insight and growth.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Shawn will listen and collaborate to pick what fits a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. That can mean trying ACT techniques some weeks and CBT strategies in others, or bringing in mindfulness and emotionally-focused ideas when relationships or attachment come up.

If you plan to use online therapy, confirm the currently offered session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, shorten travel time, and allow for check-ins during a lunch break or between errands. Some people prefer spoken exercises and shorter phone check-ins, while others choose full video sessions for face-to-face conversation. Licensed professionals adapt approaches so skills and body-based regulation work even when meeting remotely.