About Scott
Dr. Scott Lovaas helps people managing anxiety, stress, relationship strain, career transitions, and major life changes. He uses straightforward talk, careful listening, and practical steps to help people feel steadier.
He aims to be candid and kind while looking at the whole situation. He draws on three decades of clinical work across many settings and states. He holds a Master of Social Work and other advanced degrees; his social work credential is LCSW, and he also lists CSW.
Background and approach
That experience gives him a wide view of problems like addiction, grief, trauma, and caregiving stress. In sessions he listens first to understand what matters most. Then he and the person work toward clear, achievable goals.
He often blends techniques from client-centered approaches, cognitive behavioral ideas, and longer-term psychodynamic exploration depending on the need. He describes his style as direct and solution-focused, yet curious and grateful. He brings creativity to the work, including nontraditional interests that shape how he thinks about growth and change.
Outside of clinical life he has travelled widely and is a parent to grown children. Those life experiences inform his approach and give him many ways to connect with people facing complex challenges.
Approaches online and how they help
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and understanding the person's experience. It helps people who need a supportive place to talk through feelings and make sense of their priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and habits and trying small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It tends to work well for stress, worry, and sleep problems. Existential therapy looks at meaning, choice, and values when people face big life questions or transitions and can help with grief, emptiness, and career shifts.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels useful, then suggest a mix of methods rather than sticking to one model. This collaborative planning helps shape each person's path forward.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send thoughts between sessions or use shorter, more frequent contact when needed. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, travel, or changing schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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