Therapist profile
Dr. Brian Shaffer, LCMHC, LCPC
Pennsylvania
Dr. Brian Shaffer LCMHC LCPC - Addiction and Trauma
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- Credentials
- LCMHC, LCPC
- License
- LPC, Michigan / 6401018488; LCPC, Nevada / CP3204-R; LCMHC, New Hampshire / 3306; LPC, Pennsylvania / PC015782
- NPI
- 1255857439
- Experience
- 20 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- Pennsylvania
About
- Person-centered approach
- Codependency support
- Integrates spiritual beliefs
About Brian
Dr. Brian Shaffer is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in New Hampshire and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Nevada with 20 years of clinical experience. He works with adults who face stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, and codependency concerns. He also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, caregiving stress, and intimacy-related issues.
He uses a person-centered style that keeps the client's values and goals central. Sessions include practical conversation about patterns that keep someone stuck, for example people-pleasing or staying in relationships that hurt. He brings together tools from several approaches rather than using a single method.
Brian often helps clients look at how past losses or trauma influence current behavior. That can include how attachment or abandonment experiences shape reactions to partners and family. He also integrates spiritual beliefs into sessions when clients want that addressed as part of their care.
In work around addiction and recovery he offers assessment and intervention aimed at building a life that feels more manageable. For mood and anxiety concerns he uses strategies that teach skills for managing difficult feelings and improving daily routines.
He frames therapy as collaborative problem-solving. Readers who want to begin are asked to follow the site's online intake steps to match and schedule a first session.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without letting them drive behavior. It focuses on identifying values and taking small actions that match those values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and patterns like people-pleasing.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions to partners and family. It can be useful for understanding abandonment, intimacy concerns, and codependency patterns by tracing how connection experiences affect present behavior.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or try approaches that fit their goals and preferences. That process may shift over time as new challenges or strengths emerge.
Practical benefits of remote sessions depend on the formats offered. Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Therapists and licensed professionals can adapt ACT and attachment-focused work to online sessions through structured exercises, skills practice, and focused conversation to address recovery, relationship patterns, and mood management.
Areas of focus
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Also works with
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
20+ years
Listed in
Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does he address?
He works with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, depression, trauma, relationship issues, codependency, ADHD and related concerns listed in his profile.
What is his therapeutic style like?
He uses a person-centered approach and mixes interventions from several therapies to fit a client's needs.
How much clinical experience does he have?
He has 20 years of experience in mental health, addiction, trauma, grief and spiritual care.
What credentials and locations apply to his practice?
He holds LCMHC in New Hampshire and LCPC in Nevada and practices with a listed location in Pennsylvania.
Does he provide sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and he does accept international clients.
Which session formats are offered?
The original biography did not specify session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How does cost work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to begin working with him?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.