Scott Persinger
Supportive guidance for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed in
- Texas, Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Scott
Scott Persinger is a licensed clinical social worker with 37 years of experience who focuses on family and parenting concerns along with a broad range of emotional and life challenges. He greets clients simply as Scott and aims to offer empathy, encouragement, and straightforward support. He emphasizes respect and non-judgment in sessions and encourages practical habits such as journaling between meetings.
Scott keeps the tone calm and down-to-earth. He listens first, then tailors an approach that fits each person’s needs.
Background and approach
He often shares short educational materials about thoughts, feelings, and behavior to help people learn between sessions. He also encourages social contact and other real-world supports as part of change. His personal experience with chronic low vision has shaped how he notices and understands struggle.
That perspective helps him stay attuned to practical difficulties as well as emotional ones. He views therapy as a collaboration and treats the invitation to work together as an honor. In sessions Scott focuses on improving internal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
He values dignity and works to strengthen clients’ sense of self. He uses empathy, kindness, and encouragement while avoiding judgment as clients face twists and setbacks on the way to healthier functioning. Scott encourages clients to set appointments that fit their schedules and to keep brief notes between meetings to track progress.
He works to provide high-quality psychotherapy and practical tools that people can use outside the session.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client’s lead. The therapist creates a respectful space, reflects what is shared, and helps people make changes at their own pace. This approach is helpful for anyone who wants a supportive, person-led experience.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It uses straightforward exercises and short tasks to change unhelpful patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and many everyday problems.
Scott will work with each person to figure out which methods fit best. That decision is a team process based on goals, preferences, and what feels useful in early sessions. If an approach needs to shift, he will discuss options and try new strategies together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, school, and family life. They also let people use brief check-ins or longer appointments depending on what suits their day-to-day needs.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- 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
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- 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)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Utah
- Languages
- English
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