About Nirvana
Nirvana Shaw is a licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of experience helping people manage major life changes and everyday strain. She works with adults facing ADHD, career stress, LGBT-related concerns, compassion fatigue, and related challenges. Her style is direct and practical, aimed at making small, useful changes that add up over time.
Shaw uses a mind-body integrative psychotherapy framework to link emotions, physical health, and daily habits. She looks at what is happening now and helps people build tools that support longer-term change.
Background and approach
That can mean learning new ways to organize tasks, adjusting routines, or adding simple practices that reduce overwhelm. Her approach blends standard talk therapy with complementary health ideas when appropriate. That may include discussing diet, meditation, movement, or other noninvasive practices as part of a broader plan.
Medication may be discussed when it seems relevant as one option among others. Sessions tend to focus on practical steps that fit into a person’s life. People leave with tasks they can try between visits and ways to notice what helps.
The emphasis is on steady, achievable progress rather than quick fixes. Shaw practices in Maine and conducts sessions in English. Her long career means she has seen a wide range of concerns and adapts strategies to each person’s situation and goals.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Mind-body integrative psychotherapy links emotional health with physical habits and daily routines. Online work can include tracking sleep, movement, diet, or meditation practices and then reviewing what helps during sessions. This approach suits people who want to change habits that affect mood and focus.Evidence-based talk therapy techniques focus on skills for organization, impulse management, and emotional regulation. In remote sessions, these skills are taught through conversation, short exercises, and assigned practice to use between appointments. This helps when addressing ADHD-related challenges and stress from life changes.
Decisions about adding medication or complementary practices are discussed collaboratively. The therapist helps weigh options based on symptoms, goals, and preferences rather than dictating a single path. That collaborative process aims to find methods that feel realistic for each person.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skill coaching, phone is useful when bandwidth is low, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling and different ways to communicate with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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