About Shaa
Shaa Marcum is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and related concerns. She writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Her approach aims to reduce overwhelm and increase day-to-day coping skills.
She brings six years of experience working with issues such as trauma, substance use, grief, and relationship struggles. Shaa blends practical skill-building with time to process feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear tools to manage symptoms and small changes that add up over time. Shaa uses methods that include cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking patterns and dialectical behavior ideas to strengthen emotion regulation. She also draws from acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients notice values and take meaningful action.
Her style stays client-centered, keeping the person's goals front and center. People meet Shaa where they are and work together on things like panic, recurring worry, communication problems, and coping with life transitions. She pays attention to how relationships and past experiences affect current stress.
The work can include short-term skills practice or longer exploration of deeper patterns depending on what the client prefers. Sessions are offered from West Virginia and use a mix of phone, video, chat, and text-based formats. Shaa supports people who want practical strategies alongside emotional processing and aims to make therapy fit daily life.
Therapeutic approaches suited for online sessions
Shaa often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment ideas in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing patterns of thinking and behavior that keep anxiety and low mood going. It helps people learn concrete tools like thought records and behavior experiments to test new ways of responding.Acceptance and commitment therapy encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and choosing actions that align with personal values. This approach can be useful for worries, avoidance, and making changes that matter to the client. Shaa also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns and closeness with others.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Shaa works collaboratively to match methods to a person's goals, preferences, and daily life. Together they decide whether to focus on short-term skills, deeper emotional work, or a mix of both.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone can be helpful when bandwidth is low or for a quieter check-in. Chat and messaging make it easier to fit brief sessions into busy days and to continue work between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
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