About Amelia
Amelia (Markert) Shaw is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Virginia with 12 years of practice. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and life transitions. Amelia speaks plainly and meets people where they are to begin practical work toward change.
She uses straightforward conversations to help people learn new ways to manage stress and strong emotions. Sessions often look at how thoughts influence reactions and behavior, then build simple skills to respond differently.
Background and approach
The aim is clearer thinking and more useful habits in daily life. Amelia combines several approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and guide action.
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot thinking patterns and try alternative responses. Emotion-focused ideas help when relationship or intimacy issues are central. Her background includes work with trauma, grief, addiction, ADHD, and caregiving stress, among other concerns.
She also supports people facing challenges related to adoption, attachment, chronic illness, and aging. Amelia frames therapy as a practical process rather than just labels. Sessions can be conversational and hands-on, with an emphasis on small steps that add up.
She encourages people to notice what matters, try new responses, and track progress. The first step is a short conversation to see if the fit feels right and outline a plan for moving forward.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Amy uses a mix of approaches to guide online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new, more helpful responses in day-to-day life. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) can be used when relationship or intimacy issues are a concern; it helps people notice and shift patterns that get in the way of connection.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and change direction if something does not seem helpful. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what actually helps the individual make progress.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversations when interaction matters, phone calls can be a simpler option with less bandwidth, and messaging supports quick check-ins or written reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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