About David
David Porter is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Arizona with ten years of counseling experience. He helps people facing anxiety, depression, addiction recovery, trauma, relationship strain, and stress. He also supports clients dealing with grief, intimacy concerns, anger, compassion fatigue, and attention-deficit challenges such as ADHD.
He describes a direct, practical style in sessions. People learn concrete skills for managing mood and cravings, try new ways to communicate, and practice strategies between meetings.
Background and approach
He aims to make therapy approachable and focused on everyday changes that matter. David blends several evidence-informed methods to match each person's needs. He draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
He uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build psychological flexibility. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills show up in work on emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Attachment-based and client-centered elements shape how he works with relationships and trust.
That means sessions often explore patterns from past connections and emphasize listening, validation, and collaborative goal setting. Couples find tools for repairing communication and handling conflicts more calmly. Sessions are offered through multiple online formats to fit busy schedules.
The focus is on helping people move from feeling stuck to making steady, practical changes. David frames therapy as teamwork toward clearer priorities and healthier everyday habits.
Therapeutic approaches that fit online care
David uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in ways that translate well to online sessions. CBT helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through simple exercises and between-session practice. ACT focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small committed steps toward those values, which works well in short online check-ins and homework assignments.He treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals, try methods, and adjust plans together. That means initial sessions often include trialing skills to see what feels most helpful before settling on a steady plan.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skill coaching, phone calls can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work for brief check-ins, homework support, or staying connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into workdays, caregiving schedules, or recovery routines while keeping focus on progress and practical skill use.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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