About Walter
Walter Scull is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings seven years of clinical experience to his work. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and life transitions. Walter guides clients toward practical changes with clear, steady support.
He approaches sessions with client-centered listening and practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused methods. Sessions often include learning and practicing coping skills aimed at reducing distress and improving daily functioning.
Background and approach
Walter uses straightforward language and short-term strategies when those fit the client's goals. His background includes a master’s degree in counseling from the University of Missouri - Saint Louis and a mix of clinical roles, including time in the United States Coast Guard and several years in counseling settings.
That variety informs how he meets people where they are and tailors plans to real life demands. Walter works with adults, teens, and couples on concerns such as trauma recovery, anger management, parenting challenges, career coaching, ADHD, autism spectrum issues, caregiver stress, and sleep problems.
He also supports people dealing with identity and intimacy-related questions and compassion fatigue among healthcare and first responder staff. Sessions are practical and goal-focused, with an emphasis on small, manageable steps. Walter aims to help people regain enjoyment and function in daily life.
He invites prospective clients to consider what they want to change and to begin with a brief matching questionnaire to schedule a first appointment.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy puts the client's goals and perspective first. The therapist listens carefully, reflects what matters to the client, and works at the client’s pace to build trust and clarity. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and skills practice; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose or combine methods based on the client’s needs, goals, and preferences. This partnership lets the approach shift over time as progress and priorities change.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or participants prefer voice only. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, school, or caregiving schedules while still using strategies from client-centered and cognitive behavioral work.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English