Shaun Underwood
Compassionate practical support for everyday struggles
About Shaun
Shaun Underwood helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self‑esteem, depression and the shock of big life changes. He also supports people dealing with addictions, grief, trauma and relationship difficulties. Shaun works with concerns such as sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, work pressures and aspects of identity including LGBT issues.
He is based in the United Kingdom and offers sessions to people internationally in English. Shaun practises in a warm, interactive style that keeps the client’s experience central.
Background and approach
He uses a person‑centred approach and draws on a mix of methods to suit each individual. Sessions are conversational and focused on finding practical ways forward rather than fitting someone to a fixed model. Over four years of professional work have shaped his approach.
Shaun aims to help clients identify coping strategies and small changes that make daily life easier. He supports people affected by trauma, abuse, chronic health challenges and complicated grief with steady, compassionate listening. Sessions can happen by video call, telephone, live chat or text messaging.
Shaun helps clients pick ways of working that match their routines and goals. He encourages collaboration so the plan evolves as progress is made. Shaun holds BACP accreditation, which he lists as a professional credential.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire followed by scheduling a session that fits the client’s timetable. He focuses on accessible, straightforward steps to begin the work together.
What Shaun works with
How Shaun works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without being led by them and to focus on living in line with what matters. It is useful for anxiety, stress and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, works on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with small behavioural steps, which can ease mood and reduce avoidance. Client‑centred therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions and aims to build understanding and self‑compassion through an empathetic counsellor relationship.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Shaun collaborates with each person to identify methods that match their needs and goals. He combines elements from different approaches when that helps, and he adjusts the plan as progress is made so the process stays flexible and personalised.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging offers practical advantages. Video lets people work face to face from different locations, phone sessions can use less bandwidth and suit shorter check‑ins, and messaging is useful for ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on meaningful change.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
