About Pia
Dr. Pia Scott-Boston is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 12 years of clinical experience. She practices from Georgia and focuses on anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and life transitions.
She aims to make the first meeting calm and straightforward so people feel comfortable talking about what matters most. She helps people clarify goals and build practical skills. Sessions often focus on managing anxiety, coping with loss, improving confidence, and navigating career or workplace challenges.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing trauma, relationship tension, and issues tied to culture or discrimination. Pia draws on several therapeutic methods to match each person’s needs. She commonly uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people choose actions that matter to them.
Cognitive behavioral strategies are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and practice new ways of responding. Her training includes a Doctorate in Education and a Master’s in Rehabilitation Counseling. She has worked in higher education, nonprofit, and state government settings and has experience supporting veterans, college students, and people with disabilities.
In sessions she focuses on building rapport quickly and creating a welcoming space for honest conversation. The work is collaborative - she helps people set clear, realistic steps and try solutions between meetings. The goal is practical change you can use beyond therapy.
Pia emphasizes purpose and resilience as outcomes clients can work toward. She supports people who want steady, manageable progress rather than quick fixes.
How her therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It often helps with anxiety, stress, and finding clearer purpose. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior, and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns, which can ease symptoms of anxiety and depression. Client-centered therapy centers the conversation on the person’s experience, using empathic listening to help someone feel heard and then identify their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods together, and adjust the plan when something is not working. That collaborative process helps match techniques to what the person needs and prefers.
Online care offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and use a full session similar to in-person meetings. Phone sessions are useful when internet bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, shorter skill practice, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work consistently over time.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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