About Scott
Dr. Scott Anstadt offers straightforward, practical help for people coping with stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, depression, and life changes. He speaks plainly and focuses on what will matter in day-to-day life.
Many clients turn to him when they need steady, experience-based guidance and coaching through difficult transitions. He brings 36 years in clinical and academic settings to his work in Kansas. He holds LCSW and LSCSW credentials and has taught clinical courses at the university level.
Background and approach
His background includes work with individuals and groups across a range of concerns, including mood disorders, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, and aging or geriatric topics. In sessions he mixes practical skill building with conversation about values and meaning. Techniques draw from cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment principles, attachment thinking, and a client-centered stance.
He adapts contact frequency and session length to each person’s life and preferences, and he offers coaching-style check-ins when helpful. Scott favors a whole-life perspective that links therapy to everyday routines. That can mean focusing on sleep and eating patterns, setting small behavioral goals, or practicing mindfulness and self-compassion.
He aims to be direct but empathetic, helping people make steady progress without overwhelming them. His online practice supports video, phone, chat, and text-based work. People who want flexible scheduling, thoughtful interventions, and a clinician with long experience often find his approach a good match.
Approaches that guide online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can help with mood, sleep, and anger. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and how early connections shape current trust and intimacy, and it can help with communication and commitment issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and past experiences, then shape sessions to fit that input. This is a collaborative process where methods can be mixed and adjusted over time so the approach feels useful and realistic for daily life.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make contact more flexible. Video is useful for fuller conversations and exercises, phone calls work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and chat or messaging suits short check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy routines and maintain regular contact during transitions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Kansas
- Languages
- English