About David
David Porter is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Arizona with more than 10 years of counseling experience. He helps people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and stress. He also supports concerns like ADHD, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes.
David uses straightforward, skills-based work in sessions. He blends practical tools with time to make sense of what has happened.
Background and approach
Clients can expect clear goals, step-by-step strategies, and calm conversation about difficult topics. He often brings cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is used to help people focus on values and meaningful actions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are added when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are needed. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationships and how early experiences still affect current bonds. Client-centered principles shape the session tone so people feel heard and respected while moving toward change.
David has experience supporting LGBTQ clients and offers help with relationship communication, addiction recovery, and trauma-related concerns. He describes therapy as a collaborative process and aims to make steps toward recovery manageable and clear for each person. Practical matters are handled directly.
Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging. He works with adults seeking steady, focused progress in their lives and relationships.
Therapeutic approaches in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when uncomfortable emotions are present. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and making life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. This approach helps reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression by changing daily habits and thinking patterns.
David aims to work with each person to find the best mix of methods. He treats choosing an approach as a team effort, adjusting techniques to fit a person’s goals, pace, and preferences rather than following a single script.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when a longer session is needed. Phone sessions can be a good choice for lower bandwidth or when a check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter, more frequent support between sessions or when typing feels easier than talking.
These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting into busy schedules, helping people practice new skills in daily life and stay engaged with the work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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