About Chad
Chad Starrak is a licensed clinical social worker who offers straightforward, trauma-informed therapy for people feeling stuck, anxious, or burned out. He focuses on practical steps that help clients reconnect with their strengths and find clearer direction. Chad writes plainly and meets people where they are.
Chad blends approaches that target both immediate coping and deeper change. He uses EMDR to approach trauma-related memories and CBT to challenge unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Background and approach
Mindfulness skills and client-centered conversation help people notice what matters to them and stay steady through difficult moments. He brings five years of professional experience to each session. Sessions focus on making sense of a person’s story and finding what’s getting in the way.
The aim is to reduce overwhelm and build momentum toward goals that matter to the client. Chad also addresses concerns that often come with long-term stress. This includes chronic pain or illness, caregiving strain, grief around end-of-life situations, and feelings of isolation or emptiness.
He works with people facing anger, panic, obsessive thoughts, and challenges tied to autism or intellectual disability. Clients can expect a collaborative, plainspoken approach. Chad helps set realistic steps and practices that fit daily life.
He believes steady progress comes from clear goals, repeated practice, and a respectful therapeutic relationship.
How approaches like EMDR, CBT, and Mindfulness work online
Chad uses EMDR to help people process traumatic memories and reduce their hold on day-to-day life. In EMDR sessions he guides attention and movement patterns to support reprocessing of painful memories, which can lessen intense reactions over time.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It is a practical approach for anxiety, panic, and depression that includes clear exercises to practice between sessions.
Mindfulness therapy helps people notice thoughts and sensations without getting swept away by them. Simple breathing and attention practices are taught and then used in daily life to manage stress and increase emotional steadiness.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Chad will collaborate with each person to identify which methods match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they pick techniques and set small, measurable steps to try out in real situations.
Online formats make this process easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls let the therapist observe body language and lead guided exercises. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a good option for a focused check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick skill reminders, check-ins, or homework support between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English