Brian is a Licensed Professional Counselor with education, training and clinical experience in the fields of Mental Health, Addiction, Trauma, Grief, Loss and Bereavement and Spiritual Care. He provides counseling, assessment and intervention services that help clients meet their goals for a life in recovery. Brian has a passion for providing quality care, support and services to his clients through a person-centered approach that incorporates interventions from various theories and methodologies. He believes in helping clients process through past traumatic experiences that have contributed to current struggles with substance abuse and mental health symptoms. Brian also incorporates client’s spiritual beliefs into the treatment protocol in order to holistically address their needs. His extensive experience and passion for this field has helped guide individuals through the process of recovery in order to experience freedom from their past and a hope for their future.
Additional areas of focus: Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse, Intimacy-related issues, Eating disorders, Anger management, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Abandonment, Aging and geriatric issues, Attachment issues, Avoidant personality, BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture, Blended family issues, Body image, Cancer, Caregiver issues and stress, Chronic pain, illness, and disability, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Communication problems, Control issues, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Dependent personality, Divorce and separation, Drug and alcohol addiction, Eating and food-related issues, Emptiness, Family of origin issues, Family problems, First responder issues, Forgiveness, Gender dysphoria, Guilt and shame, HIV / AIDS, Hoarding, Hospice and end-of-life counseling, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Men's issues, Midlife crisis, Veteran and Armed Forces Issues, Money and financial issues, Mood disorders, Multicultural concerns, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships, Postpartum depression, Post-traumatic stress, Prejudice and discrimination, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-harm, Self-love, Sex addiction, Sexual assault and abuse, Sexuality, Social anxiety and phobia, Traumatic brain injury, Workplace issues, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Existential Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Jungian Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
MI LPC 6401018488
NH LCMHC 3306
NV LCPC CP3204-R
PA LPC PC015782
These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Dr. Brian Shaffer. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with BetterHelp might be different.
He is happy to hear me speak and I’m surprised with how well he can relate myself to other moments in my life
Written on Jan 30, 2024 after therapy with Brian for 3 years and 3 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating disorders, self esteem, and compassion fatigue
Brian hasn’t responded to any of my messages & failed to attend our session.
Written on Jul 14, 2022 after therapy with Brian for 1 year and 10 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, and self esteem
Brian is an amazing counsellor. He listens to me and always knows what to say.
Written on Mar 22, 2021 after therapy with Brian for 5 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, eating disorders, and self esteem
So far working with Brian has been great. We’ve only had one session together so we will see how it goes moving forward as it always takes time getting to know someone.
Written on Feb 26, 2021 after therapy with Brian for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, lgbt, family conflicts, and coping with life changes
I feel like Brian is helping me piece together the issues that are really bothering me and not just the surface level feelings I may have day to day. I get a lot out of my sessions with him.
Written on Dec 02, 2020 after therapy with Brian for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, lgbt, intimacy-related issues, eating disorders, self esteem, career difficulties, and adhd
Brian was a great therapist
Written on Nov 02, 2020 after therapy with Brian for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, lgbt, relationship issues, self esteem, and career difficulties