Dr. Sean St. Jean (RSW), Ph.D.
BC COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORKERS
Sean has been a Social Worker and a Counsellor in private practice for the past twelve years. He holds both a Bachelor’s and Clinical Master’s Degree in Social Work from UBC, as well as a Ph.D. in Social Work and Sociology. His research focus is on vicarious trauma and burnout among helping professionals. Sean has worked in child welfare as a child protection worker and then as a family preservation counsellor. He also worked as a mental health case manager with WorkSafeBC, adjudicating occupational mental health claims.
Currently, he teaches graduate-level social work and is the Director of MSW field education at King University in Tennessee. In his counselling practice, Sean works with individuals struggling with anxiety and depression, posttraumatic and occupational stress, burnout, and relationship issues using cognitive, psychodynamic, and faith-based approaches.
Sean’s areas of practice include anxiety, depression, life transitions, and workplace trauma. He mostly works with adults and youth and has extensive experience working with first responders, helping professionals who have experienced stress, burnout, and psychological injury due to their work environments. Much of his practice has been with indigenous people, including residential school survivors.
APPROACHES IN THERAPY
Motivational Interviewing | Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy | Cognitive | Psychodynamic | Critical Incident Stress Management | Acceptance and Commitment Therapy | Faith-based
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
