About Porter
Porter Mckee is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, trauma, anger, and depression. He speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person. Porter aims to make the first step feel manageable and supported for anyone ready to try therapy.
He creates a calm space where clients can name difficult feelings and talk through painful memories without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings, like coping strategies for panic, ways to reduce anger spikes, and routines to ease anxiety. Porter also addresses problems that often come with mental health struggles, such as isolation, guilt, and relationship strain. Porter brings a long career to the work and adapts his style to each person’s needs.
He can help people dealing with grief after separation, attachment and abandonment wounds, chronic pain or illness, and struggles with control or impulsive actions. He also supports men facing role pressures and stigma around asking for help. He is licensed in multiple states: LCSW (Florida FL LCSW SW16245) and LICSW (Alabama LICSW 4235C).
Porter practices in Mississippi and conducts sessions in English. He offers a mix of session formats including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules. Therapy begins by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a time that works.
Porter focuses on steady progress and helping people reclaim more enjoyable, manageable days.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Porter uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical steps people can use day to day. One common approach teaches skills for managing anxiety and panic - clients learn breathing and grounding methods, identify triggers, and build routines to reduce worry. Another approach focuses on processing trauma and its effects by helping people name painful memories, tolerate strong emotions, and practice new responses to reminders of past events.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Porter will talk through your concerns, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit your situation. If something isn’t working, he adjusts the plan so the work feels useful and manageable rather than overwhelming.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different lifestyles and needs. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when people prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, quick skills practice, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other daily routines while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Alabama, Florida
- Languages
- English