About Amelia
Amelia (Markert) Shaw draws on client-centered work with practical methods to help people facing stress, anxiety, ADHD, depression, and relationship challenges. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, or LCSW, practicing in Virginia with 12 years of experience. Amelia speaks plainly and aims for straightforward conversations that make sense in day-to-day life.
She meets people where they are and focuses on small, doable steps. Sessions often include thinking about values, shifting unhelpful thoughts, and building new habits that reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
The goal is clearer thinking and more control over reactions to stress and change. Amelia uses a mix of approaches, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and emotion-focused listening. That mix helps when managing intense emotions, relationship patterns, or difficulties with concentration and daily routines.
She also draws on dialectical strategies when people need better emotion regulation and boundary setting. Over a dozen years of practice has given her experience with a wide range of concerns. These include trauma and grief, caregiving stress, addiction, eating and sleeping issues, career and life changes, and intimacy or communication problems.
She also supports people dealing with ADHD-related struggles and co-occurring conditions. Her style is warm and approachable. Amelia helps people set clear intentions, try practical tools between sessions, and adjust plans as life changes.
The process is collaborative and paced to fit each person’s schedule and needs.
Using practical therapies online to manage feelings and focus
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are strong. It is useful for stress, life changes, or struggles with motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It is often helpful for anxiety, mood symptoms, and managing daily routines.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit the client's preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That collaborative testing makes it easier to find tools that actually fit a person’s life and needs.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people keep visual contact and work through relationship and emotion-focused work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messages suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and different life rhythms.
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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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