About David
David Powell is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. He supports clients facing grief, trauma, self-esteem struggles, parenting strain, career stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. David practices in Florida and offers therapy in English.
David keeps sessions straightforward and practical. He listens first, then works with each person to set clear goals.
Background and approach
He blends client-centered listening with evidence-informed methods to help people make changes that fit their life. Sessions aim to be collaborative and down-to-earth rather than theoretical. In therapy David may use cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors.
He also draws on emotionally-focused ideas to help people understand how feelings shape relationships and choices. Mindfulness approaches help with stress, sleep, and grounding during hard moments. His work covers a wide range of everyday and complex struggles, including eating and sleeping problems, bipolar concerns, addictions, body image, and caregiver stress.
He also addresses issues tied to aging, chronic illness, and recovery from loss or traumatic events. The focus is on practical steps clients can use between sessions. Sessions are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging so people can fit therapy into busy lives.
Costs vary by location and a subscription model is used that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows based on therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
David often combines client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience so goals emerge from their priorities. Cognitive behavioral work looks at thoughts and behaviors and tests small changes to reduce anxiety, depression, or problematic patterns.He also uses emotionally-focused ideas to help people connect feelings to relationship patterns and discover different ways to respond. These methods can help with intimacy issues, communication problems, grief, and attachment concerns. The therapist will work together with each person to choose approaches that fit their goals and comfort level, so the plan evolves as therapy progresses.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or reflections between longer sessions. These options provide flexibility so people can keep progress going even with work, caregiving, or health constraints.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- 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