Scotty Poston
Clinical Mental Health Counseling Graduate Student
(Associate Professional Counselor expected May 2027)
I’m here to help you find authentic, meaningful connection with yourself and the world around you.
Whether you’re seeking counseling in order to heal, grow, overcome challenges, transform your life, or find a sense of purpose, I aim to support your journey by tailoring my approach to your unique needs and goals.
I bring an attitude compassion, humility, and understanding to support you along your journey.
Through a holistic approach, we’ll work together to enhance the interconnected dimensions of your wellbeing.
Anxiety & Stress
Life/Career Transitions
Depression & Disconnection
Identity Exploration
Meaning-Making
Spirituality
Perfectionism
Grief & Loss
Interpersonal Difficulties
My Approach
I believe that positive change happens best in collaboration and authentic connection with others. My approach begins by building this connection with you through compassion, humility, and a genuine desire to understand your story.
As we work together to establish your counseling goals, we’ll bring your story into the present moment to develop insight into what can be done here and now to overcome obstacles along your journey to positive change. This process will draw upon your strengths and evoke natural motivation within you as you move towards your goals.
Along the way, we’ll continually assess the alignment between your goals for counseling and my approach for promoting positive change.
Key Mechanisms of Change
Authentic Connection
The ability to connect with ourselves and the world around us is vital for a full, healthy life. It’s also an important part of the therapeutic relationship and the foundation of my approach to supporting your journey.
Natural Growth
I believe that the capacity to grow and evolve is natural in each of us. My goal is to help you remove obstacles so that healthy development can begin to unfold naturally.
Self-Awareness
Insight is a powerful tool and can illuminate the pathway to wellbeing. Together, we’ll develop a deeper understanding of patterns, emotions, behaviors, cognitions, & relationships that relate to your growth.
Meaning-Making
Our ability to understand and integrate our experiences is vital to healthy functioning. My approach focuses largely on how we make sense of the diverse range of our experiences.
Mindfulness
Through intentional, non-judgemental awareness, we can engage in the present moment with greater curiosity and openness. This tool can enrich countless aspects of our lives from moment to moment.
Creativity & Play
Creative play promotes psychological flexibility, opening us up to more opportunities for positive change. When appropriate, this tool can bring warmth and lightness to our greatest challenges.
Values orientation
When we understand what we value most, we are more capable of moving our lives in a positive direction. Aligning with your values can be a great aid along the therapeutic journey.
Compassionate Acceptance
My aim is to approach each session with compassion and acceptance of what is. When balanced with intentional action, this tool can make your most challenging experiences easier to integrate in healthy ways.
More about My Approach
Drawing from Gestalt, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, and Constructivism, I view counseling as a collaborative, experiential process focused mainly on the present moment. Together, we’ll work to help you connect more fully with your authentic self and the world around you.
I believe many mental health challenges arise when we loose this sense of connection — often because some part of our experience feels incompatible with our values, identity, or fundamental needs. In response, we may avoid, suppress, or turn against aspects of ourselves or our experience. Strategies like these can offer short-term relief, but often create greater distress over time.
In our work together, we’ll explore these patterns and the tensions beneath them. Through self-awareness, intentional action, meaning-making, and more, we’ll begin to integrate challenging experiences and cultivate your ability to continue doing so independently. This work can help you move toward a life that feels more coherent, meaningful, and aligned with who you truly are.
My goal is to offer a space where you can engage with your experience openly and safely, while developing the flexibility and insight needed to navigate life with clarity, connection, and intentionality.
This approach tends to work well for those who may be:
Struggling to understand and integrate challenging experiences.
Feeling disconnected from self, others, or values.
Navigating a rough patch in life.
Feeling overwhelmed by constant stress or pressure.
Wanting to understand themselves more deeply.
Lacking purpose or direction.
Exploring questions of meaning, belief, or spirituality.
Interested in leveraging their strengths in an atmosphere of compassion and humility to make positive changes in their lives.
Differences in the room
I am dedicated to serving individuals from all walks of life, and will work to adapt my approach to your unique worldview and cultural background.
The spirit of cultural humility is central to my work, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being throughout our time together.
During counseling, I strive to prioritize your values and beliefs first, to avoid imposing my own values on you, and to help identify and progress towards goals that are best for you.
What I Offer
Group Work
Join our peer-facilitated process group, where we explore selfhood, authenticity, and interpersonal dynamics.
Group Counseling opportunities coming soon!
Individual Counseling
Coming Soon!
WOrkshops
Learn more about tools for wellbeing and personal growth. Topics include: mindfulness; expressive arts; adventure; creative play; dreams.
Supervision
Coming Soon!
Get in Touch
I’d love to hear from you.
To connect with me, fill out the form, or send an email to hello@theselfrevolution.com