Martin Shaw, LPC-S, LMFT
Location: Virtual
Specialties
Client centered, CBT, interpersonal
Age Group: 10-65
Education
- Masters in Counseling
Midwestern State University - Bachelors in Psychology
Midwestern State University
Licenses
- Licensed Professional Counselor – Supervisor (LPC-S)
- Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT)
We are in-network with almost all major insurances, to see our list, please click here.
Biography
Martin Shaw is a National Board-Certified Counselor, Licensed Professional Counselor, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Associate. He graduated in 2001 with his Associates in Science from Vernon College. He was awarded his Bachelors of Arts in Psychology from Midwestern State University as a member of the prestigious National College Honor Society, the Mortar Board, and Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology. While completing his Bachelor’s degree, he was accepted into the Master’s program and completed his Master’s of Arts in Counseling in 2006. Throughout his career, he conducts weekly individual, family, and group therapy sessions with children, adolescents, and adults diagnosed with a variety of disorders, including Adjustment Disorders, ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Dysthymic Disorder, Anxiety Disorders, Cognitive Disorders, including various other major mental health issues and personality disorders. He provides play therapy utilizing the child-centered play therapy approach. Martin has had specific training in cognitive behavioral therapy dealing with trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder. In June 2014, he completed requirements for Supervision of Licensed Professional Counselor Interns.
Kyle has experience working with various levels and needs of the patients. He has worked at 82nd medical group, University of Texas Medical Branch, Wichita County MHMR, and for Rose Street Mental Health Care in private practice since 2008.
My counseling philosophy is difficult to write about in a short document, but its basis is hope. Hope is what gets the depressed patient out of bed in the morning. Hope is the alcoholic putting the last drink in the trash. Hope is the teenager who goes to school the morning of prom even though they haven’t been asked yet. Hope is the individual holding the cell phone anxiously awaiting the telephone call; hope is what pushes the caterpillar through the cocoon and drives the salmon upstream. Hope is a horizon we head for, leaving nothing behind us but fear, and hope is what saves us from what we once were.
I understand that we, as counselors, do not affect change in others. Still, we are the sounding board and the craft that we provide in the healing process, which can only be understood in the counseling relationship. I believe that counselors are given a special gift to actively and empathetically listen to the patients. I trust the counseling process and recognize that I am powerless in “healing” the patient. But rather, I am the catalyst to assist in change.