About Ryan
Ryan Garza is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience helping people navigate hard moments. He practices in Utah and works in a straightforward, respectful way that aims to make therapy feel usable. He keeps language plain and welcomes questions about how therapy will proceed.
He centers sessions on each person's needs and goals. That means planning treatment together and adjusting as life changes. Ryan draws on practical strategies to manage anxiety, depression, stress, and the effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Ryan often supports people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, and problems with intimacy or communication. He also helps people dealing with addictions, codependency, anger, and feelings of isolation or shame. Veteran and armed forces issues are within his focus areas as well.
In sessions he uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice and change patterns of thinking and behavior. He pairs that with client-centered conversations that prioritize the person's priorities and pace. Motivational interviewing techniques are used when people want help making changes and building commitment.
The practical side of work includes short-term problem solving and longer-term planning. People can expect clear goals, step-by-step coping skills, and check-ins about progress. Ryan aims to be encouraging, direct, and occasionally lightly humorous when it helps the work move forward.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Ryan uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood challenges because it breaks problems into understandable steps.He also uses client-centered therapy, which means sessions follow the person's priorities and pace. That approach is helpful when someone needs a safe space to sort out values, relationships, or decisions. Motivational interviewing is another tool he brings when people want support making a change; it focuses on building motivation and small, sustainable steps.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Ryan collaborates with each person to set goals and test what helps. Together they review progress and adjust methods based on what is working and what feels right.
Online therapy lets people access these approaches in flexible ways. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and demonstration of skills. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy days or to share thoughts between sessions. These options let people shape therapy around their schedules and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English