Scotty Caudill, LCSW

Scotty Caudill is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) licensed in Kentucky with 25 years of experience. He focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and compassion fatigue. His practice also addresses forgiveness, obsessive-compulsive concerns, panic disorder and post-traumatic stress. Scotty speaks English and works with adults drawn from varied backgrounds.

Scotty describes his approach as relational and practical. He values the therapeutic relationship and uses Solution-Focused Therapy to build on a person's strengths and goals. He also incorporates ideas from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when helpful to identify patterns of thought and behavior that increase distress.

His background includes long experience in community mental health, correctional settings, long-term care, and hospice. He holds a Master of Arts in Psychology from Marshall University and a Master of Social Work from the University of New England. Over two and a half decades he has worked with people from different ages and socioeconomic situations.

In sessions he aims to be straightforward and goal-oriented. Conversations often include setting short-term steps, testing what works, and adjusting plans. He pays particular attention to how past traumatic experiences affect both mental and physical health and to practical methods that reduce those effects.

Outside work he reads post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction and spends time hiking in the Appalachian Mountains with his Great Pyrenees, Ghost. The first sessions typically focus on what you want to change and small steps toward those goals.

How Scotty uses CBT and Solution-Focused ideas online