About David
David Potts is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. He brings 14 years of clinical experience and a calm, down-to-earth manner to sessions. David aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday life.
He focuses on practical skills and clear steps rather than jargon. Conversations include identifying what gets in the way, testing small changes, and building routines that fit daily life.
Background and approach
He often addresses sleep problems, parenting challenges, work stress, relationship concerns, and issues tied to substance use. David uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. He draws on cognitive-behavioral work to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, mindfulness strategies to reduce reactivity, and emotionally-focused ideas to strengthen important bonds.
He adapts his methods over time as goals and circumstances change. His background includes work in outpatient and residential settings on Florida's Gulf Coast. That experience shaped his skill in supporting people through serious and persistent mental health problems as well as more common life struggles.
He has worked with teens, young adults, and adults across a wide range of concerns. Sessions aim to be collaborative and practical. David emphasizes progress over perfection and looks for root causes that keep problems repeating.
He encourages realistic steps that lead to clearer days and better coping over time.
How his approaches fit into online therapy
David often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and ADHD-related routines. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds practical skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling conflict more calmly. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on feelings and connection, which can help with relationship stress and intimacy-related concerns.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. He will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Clients can try different techniques in sessions and discuss what feels most useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for full sessions and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed, chat can support brief exchanges, and messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when schedules or locations change.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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