Shaa Marcum
Compassionate LICSW focused on practical change
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Shaa
Shaa Marcum is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people in West Virginia handle stress, parenting struggles, anxiety, depression, and substance concerns. She writes and speaks plainly in sessions and focuses on practical steps parents and adults can use day to day. Her style is calm and collaborative, with attention to what matters most for each person.
Her approach mixes skill-building and emotional work. She draws from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy to teach coping skills and problem solving.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas help when relationships and family patterns are part of the problem. Shaa has six years of clinical experience as a LICSW - Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. She has worked with people facing trauma, mood challenges, addiction, grief, and stress related to life changes and caregiving.
She also addresses issues like communication problems, codependency, and navigating separation. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs. Shaa focuses on helping clients notice unhelpful patterns, try small behavior changes, and practice skills until they fit daily life.
She blends teaching with listening so clients feel understood and able to act. Her work often touches on parenting and family matters when those issues come up in therapy. Shaa aims to help clients build steadier routines, clearer boundaries, and safer ways to talk about hard topics.
The emphasis is on realistic, usable changes rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and choose actions that match their values instead of getting stuck. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and coping with major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with new behaviors and problem solving; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress relief. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns that began early in life and how they show up now; it helps when family dynamics and communication are central concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and daily life. That may mean starting with skills training, then shifting to deeper emotional work as trust builds.
Online sessions let people connect from home using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around parenting, work, and medical needs. They also allow the therapist to teach skills, coach through hard moments, and follow progress without requiring travel.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
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