About Amelia
Amelia (Markert) Shaw is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Virginia who focuses on somatic-informed care and practical strategies. She draws on 12 years of experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and other life challenges. Amelia aims to meet people where they are and make therapy feel approachable and useful.
She uses body-aware work alongside evidence-based talking therapies to help people notice how stress shows up in the body.
Background and approach
That awareness is paired with tools to calm strong reactions and improve daily functioning. Sessions often include exercises to recognize physical signals and small, doable practices to change unhelpful patterns. Amelia also works with clients on relationships, self-esteem, addiction concerns, and coping with major life changes.
She blends skills from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts, clarify values, and take steps that matter to them. Dialectical skills and client-centered listening are woven in when needed. Her approach is steady and down-to-earth.
She invites clients to explore new perspectives without pressure. Together they set clear goals and try practical steps between sessions to test what helps. Amelia wants therapy to be a space for learning and action.
She supports people who want better ways to handle emotions, improve communication, or make life changes. The work is collaborative and paced to fit each person’s needs.
Approaches that translate to online sessions
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how the body holds stress and emotion. In online sessions this can mean guided breath work, grounding practices, and noticing physical signals while talking about difficult memories or current triggers. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values. Online ACT sessions often use short exercises and real-world experiments to test new ways of responding to thoughts and feelings. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on empathetic listening and creating a respectful space where a person can speak freely; online meetings keep that same warm, attentive stance even when meeting by video or phone.Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to find what fits their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying a few techniques and adjusting over time so therapy feels useful and manageable.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and practical demonstrations. Phone sessions offer convenience when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing coaching between scheduled meetings. These options help maintain consistency and flexibility while pursuing progress together.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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