About David
David Potts is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of experience. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy concerns, ADHD, bipolar challenges, and major life changes. He works with adults, young adults, and teens and offers practical support that aims for steady progress rather than perfection.
David uses a direct and engaging style. Sessions focus on finding workable steps that fit day-to-day life.
Background and approach
He listens for patterns and roots of problems and then looks for small changes that make a real difference. He emphasizes clear goals and realistic skills people can use between sessions. His background includes work in outpatient and residential settings on the Gulf Coast of southwest Florida.
That history includes supporting people with severe and persistent mental health issues, substance use concerns, trauma, and teens who have experienced abandonment or loss. He has also worked with clients facing career stress, sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue. David draws from several approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Existential Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy.
He adapts methods to each person's needs and combines practical strategies with reflective conversations. He stresses collaboration and aims to help people build tools they can rely on after therapy. He offers sessions in English and accepts clients from other locations as well.
David frames therapy as a step-by-step process and encourages people to start where they are and move forward at a steady pace.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
David uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so people can try small experiments and see what changes. He also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills, which can help when feelings feel overwhelming or relationships are strained.Finding the right approach is part of the work. David meets clients where they are and discusses which methods fit their goals and daily life. He makes decisions together with clients and adjusts the plan based on what is helpful and what is not working.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful for more in-depth sessions that benefit from face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who want frequent brief support, updates between sessions, or notes they can read later. Together these formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caring responsibilities while still using CBT and DBT skills in real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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