About Amelia
Amelia (Markert) Shaw approaches therapy with a focus on practical, person-centered care. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and she uses straightforward conversation to help people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, or major life changes. Amelia aims to make the first step feel possible and clear.
She listens to where someone is right now and builds from there. Sessions often begin with small goals that fit into daily life.
Background and approach
Over time she helps people notice how thoughts and habits shape feelings and reactions, and then practice different ways of responding. Amelia blends several approaches to match what each person needs. She uses tools from client-centered work to keep the focus on the persons priorities.
Cognitive behavioral ideas are used to identify patterns of thinking, and acceptance-based methods help people tolerate difficult emotions while moving toward meaningful goals. Her background includes 12 years of clinical experience in Virginia. That experience informs practical strategies for challenges like depression, addictions, parenting strain, burnout, ADHD, and intimacy-related concerns.
She also supports people dealing with trauma, attachment wounds, and life transitions. Amelia aims to be approachable and direct. She helps create clear, doable plans for change.
People who want to try a steady, collaborative approach to managing stress and building a more satisfying life may find her style helpful.
How Amelia's approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small actions that matter to them while learning to live with unpleasant feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to change mood and functioning. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and problem-focused goals. Client-centered therapy keeps the person's experience and goals at the center, using a supportive, nonjudgmental stance to help someone feel heard and decide what changes to try.Finding the right mix of these approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about what matters to them and suggest techniques that fit their goals and daily life. That process is collaborative and adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for a conversation that feels most like an in-person visit. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions and can fit into a busy schedule. These options make it easier to get consistent care that fits work, family, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English