Scott Underwood, LCSW

Scott Underwood is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California with 23 years of experience. He began working in mental health after serving as an Army Behavioral Science Specialist in 1984 and has since worked in community mental health, psychiatric hospitals, and private practice. He has recent experience providing services to active duty Air Force personnel at Nellis and Creech Air Force Base.

He helps people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, relationship and family concerns, grief, and issues around intimacy. He also supports people facing career setbacks, sleeping and eating problems, and midlife challenges. He names veteran and armed forces issues among his additional areas of focus.

Scott uses practical tools and conversation to address problems. He offers problem solving and anger management work alongside trauma-focused care. He describes therapy as something that does not always need to be heavy or serious; when appropriate he uses lightness and humor to ease tension and make progress.

For new clients he asks for a sense of what they want from therapy. He says that can be an assessment and recommendations, short-term focused work with a set number of sessions, or longer-term growth. He will try to match the approach to the stated goals and is flexible if those goals change over time.

He notes that people use teleconference, phone, or chat through the service and that some value the convenience or relative anonymity of an internet platform. He invites prospective clients to say what they want so he can tailor session focus and length accordingly.

How his approaches translate to online work