Sean Gardner
Restore connection and build coping skills
LPC, LMHC Arizona
- Experience
- 10 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Anger
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Sean
Sean Gardner is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with ten years of clinical experience. He combines life experience from military service and frontline emergency roles with formal counseling education to help people facing major stressors.
Background and approach
Sean aims to help clients feel more present and connected to themselves and others. He uses straightforward talk therapy and practical skills to address relationship stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and coping with life changes.
He also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, intimate issues, and concerns around self-esteem and career. He brings a calm, steady presence and focuses on what someone can do between sessions as well as during them.
Sean trained at Chaminade University of Honolulu, earning a master’s degree in counseling psychology. He has worked in inpatient adolescent care and with Veterans Affairs on housing and social work tasks.
He has provided online psychotherapy for several years, drawing on a range of approaches to match a person’s needs. His clinical approach includes methods that address thoughts, behaviors, and relationship patterns.
He blends structured skills work with acceptance-based practices and client-centered listening. This mix helps when someone needs tools for daily coping and deeper work on patterns that keep returning.
Sean works from Arizona licensing while offering sessions in English and meeting with international clients as appropriate. He aims to make therapy practical, accessible, and focused on real change people can notice in day-to-day life.
How Sean’s Approaches Work Online
Sean uses the Gottman Method to look at relationship patterns and improve communication. That approach focuses on practical exercises and conversations that help people reduce conflict and increase connection in everyday interactions.He also works with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes because it focuses on behavior that matters to the person.
Sessions are collaborative. The therapist will help figure out which approach or mix of approaches best fits a person’s goals and preferences. Clients and the therapist check in together and adjust methods as needed rather than sticking rigidly to a single model.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face and use visual exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a flexible option during a break. Live chat and messaging work for shorter check-ins, coping reminders, and steady support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on practical change.
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Experience
10+ years
Licensed in
Hawaii, Arizona
Languages
English