About Shaa
Shaa Marcum is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and stress. She works with individuals who are trying to manage trauma, relationship strain, parenting challenges, or changes in their life and career. Shaa offers practical support that focuses on what matters to each person right now.
Shaa uses straightforward, evidence-informed methods to help people learn skills and make steady progress. She often mixes strategies from cognitive behavioral work with acceptance-based ideas and attachment-focused perspectives.
How Shaa works
Sessions include skill practice, emotion work, and conversations about values and goals. With six years of clinical experience and a West Virginia LICSW license, Shaa draws on a range of approaches to match each person's needs. She pays close attention to how early relationships and current patterns affect daily life and choices.
That helps people understand themselves without blame. People who meet with Shaa can expect a calm, collaborative tone. She aims to teach coping techniques for overwhelming feelings and to strengthen communication and boundaries.
Work may include building distress tolerance, shifting unhelpful thoughts, or clarifying what someone wants moving forward. Shaa also addresses concerns such as ADHD, bipolar symptoms, intimacy issues, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She supports people dealing with adoption or foster care histories, abandonment, chronic illness, or substance use challenges.
Her approach is tailored to the person's goals and paced to what they can manage.
Shaa lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
What Shaa works with
The areas below are the ones Shaa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | West Virginia |
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Online support options
How Shaa's Approaches Work Online
Shaa often blends cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based work to help people manage thoughts and build practical coping skills. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing small behavior changes to reduce distress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes values, mindfulness, and making room for difficult feelings while moving toward a meaningful life.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Shaa will collaborate with each person to decide which tools fit their goals, symptoms, and preferences. That may mean trying a few strategies and adjusting as progress is tracked together.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier and to match communication preferences. Video calls allow visual connection for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be a better fit when bandwidth is limited, and messaging formats support brief check-ins or practice between longer appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep therapy consistent when circumstances change.
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