Shawnean Callihan , LPC

Shawnean Callihan is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 29 years of clinical experience in Missouri. She focuses on helping people through stressful life changes, anxiety, grief, and challenges tied to relationships and parenting. Her background includes work with women and individuals facing neurodevelopmental differences.

She favors a straightforward, empathetic style. Sessions are conversational and practical. Shawnean listens first, then helps people find manageable steps they can try between meetings.

Her work often addresses communication problems, isolation, and the emotional fallout of separation and divorce. She also supports people dealing with postpartum depression, seasonal mood changes, and sleeping or anger difficulties. Clients may bring concerns about self-esteem, career stress, or intimacy-related issues.

Shawnean uses familiar therapeutic methods in ways that make sense to each person. She draws on Client-Centered ideas to follow the client’s pace, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts, and Solution-Focused techniques to set short-term goals. These approaches are woven together to fit the issue at hand.

Practical coping skills and clearer communication are common outcomes of her work together with clients. She helps parents handle parenting strain and supports people navigating blended family matters and family conflict. Shawnean aims to make therapy feel like a steady conversation that leads to small, useful changes.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's experience first and focuses on understanding and acceptance. It helps when someone needs time to talk through feelings and be heard without pressure.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions. It teaches practical tools to shift unhelpful thinking and reduce anxiety, low mood, or sleep problems.

Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, achievable steps and clear short-term goals. This method can be useful when someone wants fast strategies to manage parenting strain, work stress, or relationship communication problems.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the issues you bring, then together decide which methods to try. Plans can change as work proceeds to fit what helps most.

Online therapy offers flexibility by letting people connect in different ways. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat or text-based messaging fits short updates, ongoing encouragement, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, and everyday life.