Sean Eagon, MA, LMHCA, NCC

Sean is a licensed mental health counselor associate with the Washington State Department of Health. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dramatic Arts from Whitman College and received a Master of Arts degree from Gonzaga University in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. He was a counseling intern at Gonzaga Health and Counseling Services.

Sean has pursued varied interests over time that include the arts and service to the community. Earlier in his life, he was a founding member of a theater group in Seattle, WA. The group focused on storytelling and narratives that incorporated diversity of voice and character. These facets were part of the group’s larger purpose to engage the local community creatively and claim space for communal cathartic experience and ritual in hopes that increased awareness and change find root in the shared experience.

Sean has experience in counseling services working with individuals. He incorporates each person’s narratives into the potential processes of development, growth, and change. Additionally, the shared experience of counseling has potential to enhance the individual’s growth through a therapeutic alliance that helps to support the client’s healing journey. Overall, he utilizes an eclectic model including Person-Centered Therapy, Existential Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Using these and other approaches including the client’s own experience, he works to meet the client’s needs. He fosters a supportive and safe environment, that emphasizes the alliance between client and counselor, to help the potential process of each person’s development and growth, healing, and change.

Sean has experience working with individuals on anxiety and depression, grief and loss, relationship issues, self-esteem, spiritual and religious exploration, mindfulness, irrational thinking and reframing, and emotional processing.