William Schultz, MA, LPCC

Advocate.
Clinician.
Researcher.
Survivor.

You’re looking for someone who understands OCD inside and out — someone who’s going to help you feel better for good.

You’re in the right place!

I don’t just think about OCD when I’m with clients. My life is built around it:

Engaging with OCD from multiple angles directly supports my clients.

One of my top priorities is spreading knowledge, understanding, and information about treatment options related to OCD. OCD is hard enough when you know what it is and that you’re experiencing it. Unfortunately, so many suffer from OCD without realizing what’s happening to them.

My clinical work informs my research focus. I bring the questions, concerns, and challenges I frequently see from my clients to my research. It also requires me to review new studies published each week. This helps ensure my clients are getting the most up-to-date care.

My energy for mental health is rooted in having lived through the pain and devastation of my OCD. I know first hand what it’s like to suffer from constant obsessions and compulsions. I know how painful, time consuming, and embarrassing living with OCD can be.
And I know how OCD can be overcome.

Apart from OCD, I love:

  • Having coffee with my family

  • Being active

  • Gaming with friends (I’m a lifelong gamer, from board games to computer games and everything in-between)

  • Spending time relaxing with my two little guys: Jalapeno and Leonidas (my cats)

 Education and Credentials

Education:

  • Master’s Degree, Clinical Psychology, 2016
    Minnesota School of Professional Psychology

  • Bachelor’s Degree, Philosophy, 2007
    Concordia College, Moorhead

Clinical Training:

  • University of Minnesota

  • Brakins Consulting and Psychological Services

  • Watercourse Counseling

  • Argosy University Student Counseling Services

Professional Memberships:

My Research

“William Schultz has written a marvelous, fact-filled book arguing against current biologically-based conceptions of mental illness. It is also a very courageous book, drawing on his experiences as a patient, a clinician, and a researcher, to challenge widespread misconceptions of mental disorders as brain diseases. Schultz’s book should be read by all mental health professionals, primary care physicians, people suffering from psychological malaise, and their families. It may change the way you work and the way you live.”

— Dr. Irving Kirsch
Harvard Medical School

“Drawing on his experiences as a clinician, and through meticulous research, William Schultz investigates the relationship between the brain and behavior with stunning clarity. He doesn’t deny the possible role of biological mechanisms in mental disorders. Instead, he uses a data-driven approach to demonstrate the importance of behavioral treatments, like cognitive behavioral therapy…I write this as a pharmacologist that fully believes medications can have value in the treatment of psychopathologies and as a researcher investigating how biological mechanisms impact behavior…This knowledge ought to drive how we view mental health and its treatments.”

— Dr. Fernando B. de Moura
Scientist at the FDA, Formerly at Harvard Medical School

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

  • Schultz, W. (2021). Biogenetic etiologies of mental disorders: Avoiding shortcomings and dangers within psychoeducation. Advances in Cognitive Therapy, 22(1), 7; 13.

Peer-Reviewed Journals In Which My Research Has Appeared:

  • Academic Psychiatry

  • American Journal of Medical Genetics

  • Best Practices in Mental Health

  • BMC Public Health

  • Disability & Society

  • Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry

  • Frontiers in Pain Research

  • Frontiers In Psychiatry

  • Health Research Board Open Research

  • Journal of Feminist Family Therapy

  • Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development

  • Journal of Mental Health Counseling

  • Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders

  • Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health

  • New Zealand Journal of Psychology

  • NeuroImage

  • Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise, and Health

  • Professional Counselor

  • Psychiatry Research

  • Science Progress

  • The Behavior Therapist

  • The Journal of Humanistic Counseling

  • Theory & Psychology

  • Written Communication