About Brian
Dr. Brian Shaffer is a licensed counselor working in Pennsylvania. He is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, LCMHC, and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, with about 20 years of experience.
He focuses on practical help for everyday problems and recognizes how ADHD, anxiety, depression, and addiction can affect daily life. He uses a person-centered way of working that keeps the client's goals in front. Sessions focus on what is most important to the person, not on jargon.
Background and approach
He mixes skills and strategies from several approaches to fit each person's needs. Many sessions include talking through past losses or trauma and how those experiences influence current behavior. He also pays attention to spiritual beliefs when clients want that included in care.
That can make therapy feel more connected to a person's values and hopes. Dr. Shaffer teaches coping skills for stress, anger, and relationship problems.
He offers tools to manage mood shifts, addictive urges, and difficulties with attention and focus. He emphasizes steps people can try between sessions to make steady progress. People who prefer remote options can work with him by video, phone, chat, or text-based messaging.
He works with international clients and provides straightforward guidance on next steps for starting therapy.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small actions that match those values. It is often used to reduce avoidance, manage anxiety, and support behavior change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and homework. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and attention-related struggles where skills practice helps build new habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That may mean combining ACT, CBT, or attachment-focused ideas so sessions match the person's needs and pace.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is needed, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat make for shorter check-ins or flexible scheduling. These options make it simpler to attend sessions across time zones and for international clients while keeping focus on developing skills and reaching goals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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