About Nita Scott
For people who want to feel more grounded in themselves, their relationships, and their lives.
You may be the person everyone turns to. You’ve learned how to keep going, manage what needs to be managed, and get through difficult seasons. But sometimes, despite knowing what you should do, you still find yourself feeling anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, angry, or stuck in patterns you don’t quite understand.
Sometimes the issue isn't simply what is happening in your life. It is what has accumulated beneath the surface—old experiences, relationship patterns, expectations, disappointments, and ways of coping that may have once helped you but no longer serve you in the same way.
Therapy can be a place to slow that process down.
Nita Scott's Story
Nita Smith Scott brings more than 25 years of experience helping individuals navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, family concerns, grief, stress, and major life transitions. Her work is grounded in the belief that meaningful change begins with understanding yourself more deeply.
Nita's approach
Nita draws from psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy, Gestalt therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), DBT, and other evidence-based approaches to help clients understand both what they are experiencing and what may be contributing to it.
Her approach is warm, thoughtful, and engaged. She believes therapy should be a place where you can speak honestly about what is happening in your life without feeling judged or reduced to a diagnosis.
Together, you may explore the patterns that show up in your relationships, the emotions that feel difficult to manage, or the ways past experiences continue to influence the present.
At the same time, Nita believes insight should lead somewhere. Therapy can also provide practical tools for managing stress, navigating conflict, strengthening relationships, setting boundaries, and responding to difficult emotions in new ways.
What It's Like to Work With
Nita Scott
What it's like to work with Nita
With more than two decades in the field, Nita brings experience and perspective to the therapeutic relationship. Her style is supportive and empowering, while also allowing room for honest reflection and gentle challenge.
You don't need to have everything figured out before beginning therapy. You can come with a specific problem, a general sense that something needs to change, or simply a feeling that you are ready to understand yourself differently.
Together, you'll identify what brought you to therapy and create a direction for the work that feels meaningful to you.
The goal isn't to become a completely different person.
It's to understand yourself well enough to make different choices.
To recognize the patterns that keep you stuck.
To develop more flexibility in how you respond.
To build healthier relationships with yourself and others.
And to feel more capable of moving through life without constantly having to hold everything together.
Areas of Focus
- Grief and Loss
- ADHD
- Anxiety and Depression
Credentials & Training
- LMFT
“Therapy is a space to understand yourself more deeply, make sense of the patterns that shape your life, and discover new ways of moving forward.” Nita Smith Scott, LMFT
Nita Scott, LMFT
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