About Scott
Dr. Scott Shaw greets people with a calm, straightforward approach. He helps with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
He also supports those managing addiction, grief, intimacy concerns, sleep and eating issues, and career or parenting strain. Dr. Shaw holds LPC and LMSW credentials and works from Michigan.
He brings 25 years of clinical experience to conversations. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps rather than jargon.
How Scott works
He listens, reflects what matters, and helps people try out new ways of handling hard moments. His work draws on several therapy methods to match each person’s needs. That can include looking at patterns in relationships, learning skills to change unhelpful thoughts, and identifying personal values to guide choices.
The pace and techniques change depending on what a person wants to achieve. Dr. Shaw pays attention to life context such as caregiving stress, chronic illness, aging concerns, and complex relationship patterns.
He also addresses issues like codependency, attachment challenges, and alternative sexual cultures when relevant to the person’s goals. People who choose him can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk through difficult decisions. The process emphasizes collaboration and practical tools that can be used between meetings.
Scott lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Scott works with
The areas below are the ones Scott selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How therapy methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps that match those values. It is often used for anxiety, low motivation, or when life changes make decisions hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It tends to be practical and skill-based for issues like anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current responses and helps people notice and change those patterns in relationships and self-care.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, comfort level, and life situation. Sessions often combine talking, skill practice, and short exercises people can use between meetings.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief updates or coaching into a busy day. These options help people keep therapy consistent despite work, caregiving, or mobility challenges.
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