Sean O’Hara, LCSW

Sean is a Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW) in Massachusetts. His path to clinical practice has been shaped by a range of professional and personal experiences, including community-based mental health work, personal training, bodywork, and college athletics. He is a graduate of the Salem State School of Social Work, Boston Massage School, Harvard College, and St. John's Prep.

Sean’s approach is client-centered, collaborative, goal-directed, and guided by on-going feedback. His style balances compassionate, non-judgmental support with encouragement to take thoughtful, measured risks- helping clients build confidence in their capacity to tolerate, move through, heal, and grow from life’s challenges. His clinical orientation is humanistic and integrative, focusing on the strength of the therapeutic relationship and drawing from a range of psychotherapeutic modalities. He believes in the value of all the common ways individuals, families, and communities make meaning, derive moral guidance, and navigate uncertainty- philosophy, science, religion and spirituality, and art. 

Sean primarily works with adults and emerging adults navigating “problems of living” such as depression, anxiety, adjustment to life transitions, interpersonal/social challenges, grief, and lack of direction. He is supervised by Kristin Angell and Emily Drachmann who together share decades of clinical experience and hold advanced training in numerous evidence-based treatments including CBT, DBT, ACT, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and psychodynamic therapy.