About Scott
Scott Shepherd is Scott Shepherd, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 30 years in mental health and addiction work. He helps people facing substance use, depression, anxiety, PTSD, stress, anger, and impulsive or compulsive behaviors. Scott speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that people can use right away.
He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. He also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to build coping skills and motivation.
Background and approach
Scott aims to help people weigh options and choose interventions that match their goals. Scott has long experience helping people with co-occurring issues, where substance use and mood or trauma symptoms show up together. He works with concerns like grief, family-of-origin wounds, codependency, process addictions, and issues common to first responders and veterans.
He also addresses life transitions, career stress, parenting strain, and relationship struggles at an individual level. Sessions tend to be direct and goal-focused. Scott helps clients set clear, manageable steps and practices between meetings.
He stays involved in tracking progress and adjusting plans when something isn’t working. The overall aim is steady, real change: reduce harmful behaviors, manage mood and anxiety, and restore a sense of purpose and self-respect. Scott frames therapy as a partnership where people take the lead and he offers guidance, tools, and steady support.
How Scott uses therapy approaches online
Scott commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing in online sessions. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviors. Motivational Interviewing focuses on a person’s own reasons for change and builds readiness and commitment before major steps are taken.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Scott collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. He checks progress and adjusts methods when something isn’t helping, so the plan changes as the client grows.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is low, live chat supports short check-ins, and messaging lets clients share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep steady momentum toward goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English