Dr. Scott Anstadt, LCSW, LSCSW

Dr. Scott Anstadt is a licensed clinical social worker with 36 years of practice. He blends direct, practical guidance with a calm, reflective presence to help people manage stress, grief, anxiety, and life transitions. He uses straightforward skills people can try between sessions and keeps explanations clear and simple.

In sessions he focuses on what matters day to day. He draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-focused ideas to help people notice patterns, make values-based choices, and change unhelpful habits. Conversations are often about small, concrete steps that fit into a client's life.

Scott has taught clinical courses at the university level and has long experience in both individual and group work. He appreciates helping people facing aging and geriatric concerns, complicated grief, and major life shifts where planning and perspective both matter. His background includes work with trauma, addictions, mood disorders, and relationship and communication challenges.

He favors a flexible rhythm of appointments and occasional brief coaching contacts when those help keep progress moving. Online sessions allow him to adapt session length and timing to a client's routine while still focusing on practical strategies and long-term goals.

Scott holds LCSW and LSCSW credentials and practices from Kansas. He offers sessions in English and accepts international clients, using approaches that fit each person's goals and daily life.

Using CBT, ACT and Attachment ideas in online care

Dr. Anstadt commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with more adaptive habits. CBT sessions focus on short experiments, behavior changes, and simple strategies to ease anxiety, mood problems, and sleep or eating difficulties.

He also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters most and take action toward those values even when difficult feelings are present. Attachment-based ideas show up when addressing relationship patterns, communication problems, and issues that trace back to early bonds.

Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. He treats this as a team effort, asking about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they try methods, review what works, and adjust the plan over time.

Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to schedule sessions, keep regular contact, and use flexible session lengths when that helps progress.