About Walter
Walter Scull is a Licensed Professional Counselor with seven years of clinical experience. He practices from Missouri and works with adults and teens on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and grief. He uses clear, practical methods in sessions.
That may include client-centered conversations, solution-focused steps, and cognitive behavioral techniques. Walter often teaches and practices coping skills aimed at lowering symptoms and helping people feel more in control.
Background and approach
Walter's background includes a master’s degree in counseling from the University of Missouri–Saint Louis and work in both military service and corporate settings. Those experiences shape a straightforward style that values goal-setting and real-world problem solving.
He helps people facing a wide range of concerns, including trauma recovery, anger, parenting stress, career coaching, ADHD and autism spectrum challenges, caregiving fatigue, and issues tied to major life transitions. He also supports people navigating identity and LGBT-related questions. Sessions are described as respectful and nonjudgmental, with a focus on what the client wants to change.
Walter aims to help clients build skills, regain stability, and move toward clearer goals. He enjoys time with his family, outdoor activities, and travel when not working.
Approaches that guide online counseling
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what each person brings. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns, and helps people name what matters to them. This approach is useful for rebuilding confidence, improving relationships, and feeling heard.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. CBT can help with anxiety, sleep issues, and mood by breaking big problems into manageable steps and practicing new reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Walter will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on what feels useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility and fits into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from wherever is most convenient. Phone sessions or live chat work well when bandwidth or time is limited. Text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins and ongoing skill practice between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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