About Benjamin
Benjamin Livesay is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of experience. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, grief, and career challenges. He speaks plainly and aims to treat each person as an individual, not a label.
His style is practical and focused on real life changes. Benjamin views many struggles as coping strategies that once helped someone survive. He explains how those strategies can become limiting over time.
Background and approach
In sessions he helps people see which patterns still serve them, and which need to change for a different season of life. He takes time to understand what matters most to each person. Together they create a plan with clear steps toward attainable goals.
The plan is shaped around a person’s needs, values, and daily responsibilities. Benjamin has worked across issues that include adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, communication and control problems, divorce and separation, and drug and alcohol addiction. He also supports people dealing with first responder stress, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and finding life purpose.
Sessions also address practical stressors like money, career strain, and midlife transitions. People looking for help with grief or post-traumatic stress will find a therapist who emphasizes steady progress. Benjamin practices in Arkansas and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches that guide online work
Benjamin uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and recovery. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful coping habits and replace them with new skills that match their current life. This kind of work can help with addiction, impulsivity, and patterns that get in the way of relationships or goals.Another approach centers on processing trauma and its effects on thinking and behavior. It helps people make sense of painful experiences and reduce their hold on daily life. This work is often useful for post-traumatic stress, grief, and long-standing anxiety.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Benjamin will collaborate with each person to determine which techniques fit their needs, goals, and preferences. He explains options, adjusts plans as progress happens, and focuses on steps that feel manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow deeper conversation while phone sessions use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins or times when typing is easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma
- Languages
- English