About David
David Powell is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. He offers straightforward support for relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, low self-esteem, grief, sleeping and eating difficulties, and major life changes. David writes in clear, practical terms and focuses on what will make a difference now.
David uses a mix of approaches to fit each person's needs. He draws on client-centered work that listens closely to what matters most to the person in front of him.
Background and approach
He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Mindfulness practices are added to help with stress, grounding, and attention challenges. In sessions he aims for a calm, direct style that balances empathy with practical tools.
Conversations often include skill building, gentle reflection on patterns, and small experiments to try between meetings. He helps people set realistic goals and track progress in everyday life. David brings experience with trauma and grief, compassion fatigue, caregiving stress, chronic health issues, and mood disorders such as bipolar.
He supports people dealing with career strain, anger, and identity questions including LGBT concerns. His approach is flexible and adjusts as needs change over time. David is based in Florida and works in English.
He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client's availability.
Approaches that translate well to online care
David combines client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness practices to help people make changes at home and at work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding what matters most to the person, which helps build trust and identify personal goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors, offering exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, tackle attention challenges, and alter unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness therapy trains simple attention and breathing skills that can reduce stress and improve focus in daily life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about needs and goals, try methods that fit those priorities, and adjust the plan based on what works. That way the approach evolves with the person's progress and preferences.
Online formats provide practical advantages for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a lunch break, and live chat or text-based messaging support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice new skills in real-world settings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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