She sees many college students and working professionals who are exhausted by the pace they have set for themselves and unsure how to slow it without losing ground.

She is comfortable sitting with clients whose distress is tied to political change and systemic oppression rather than treating it as something to reframe. She also works with highly sensitive women learning to stop apologizing for how deeply they feel things. Much of the work involves boundaries, values, and building a life that actually fits the person living it.

Shawn draws on existential and transpersonal therapy, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness practice. She has additional training in cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), a structured approach that treats chronic sleep problems directly rather than waiting for them to resolve once anxiety improves. Her earlier work as a yoga teacher and personal trainer shows up in how she helps clients build self-care habits that hold up over time instead of collapsing after two weeks.