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Therapy

Hello, my name is Bill Shaud.  Welcome to my general counseling practice.  I am a  counselor / psychotherapist who has spent more than forty years as a mental health professional struggling with individuals and families to define and resolve unique challenges each of us face.

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Mood and Anxiety

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Mood and Anxiety States

Through the mid 1990’s, depression was considered the “common cold” of mental health. We now know that twice as many people experience anxiety, but together, anxiety and depression affect sixty million adults in the United States...
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Trauma

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Trauma

As a mental health professional who has been in the trenches working with people for more than forty years, I have had extensive experience working with the victims of trauma...
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Relationships and Couples

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Relationships and Couples

In this high-stress age of internet romance, reblended families, and evolving values, love relationships are more complex and challenging than ever. Economic difficulty and shared or co-parenting issues just pile on. At a time when we no longer trust the government or schools, when we no longer go to church, and extended families no longer provide the support they used to in the “good old days”,
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Addiction

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Addiction

If only addiction was simply about excessive substance use or behavior. It is actually about a complex interaction between: genetics, neurology, personality style, family patterns or modeling, psychosocial stressors, self-esteem, and ethnic heritage...
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Young Adults

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Young Adults

For this professional, our modern era presents two conflicting realities to young people: Today is incredibly exciting as the information/technology age offers opportunities not dreamed of just twenty years ago...
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LGBT

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LGBT

It’s an extremely exciting time to be a member of the LGBT community as it seems that US culture is finally “getting it”. Two-thirds of the American public embraces marital choice, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is gone, and gay haters and bashers are quickly becoming an official “lunatic fringe”...
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Mental Health Diagnoses

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Mental Health Diagnoses

With the discovery of the major categories of psycho-pharmaceutical agents beginning in the 1960’s and up to the present day, biologically based mental illness is more effectively treatable today than ever before...
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You’re stuck, overwhelmed, and tired, and you need help finding your way forward.

While I run a general practice, I’d like to give you information on some of my specialty areas.  On this website you’ll find information about addictions (both drug and otherwise), issues facing the LGBT community, mood and anxiety states, issues couples face in relationshipstrauma including PTSD and other life-changing events, and the troubles young adults can go through. I also work with people having more severe mental health diagnosis as well.

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