About Ryan
Ryan O'Connell is a licensed clinical social worker with six years of experience in New York. He meets people who are high functioning but stretched thin by stress, anxiety, grief, or uncertainty about their next steps. Ryan focuses on helping people find more purpose and authenticity, not just temporary relief from symptoms.
He works with clients who are navigating life transitions, processing loss, or rethinking their sense of identity. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps that move daily life forward.
Background and approach
Ryan encourages reflection about relationships, work, and values so people can make changes that matter. Ryan draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage anxiety, cope with grief, and address attention challenges. He centers a straightforward, collaborative style that values honesty and problem solving.
The tone in sessions is calm, direct, and focused on real-world outcomes. Clients who do best with Ryan tend to want structure alongside reflection. He helps create simple plans, builds coping tools, and checks progress over time.
The aim is steady improvement in mood, functioning, and a clearer sense of direction. Ryan practices in New York and sees people in English. He supports a range of concerns including career questions, caregiver stress, body image, substance use issues, and end-of-life matters.
For people seeking practical help with big life changes, Ryan offers a thoughtful, goal-oriented approach.
How Ryan brings evidence-based approaches to online care
Ryan commonly uses widely studied techniques that combine practical skills with personal reflection. One approach focuses on building coping strategies for anxiety and stress through gradual practice and day-to-day tools that reduce overwhelm. This helps when anxious thoughts or busy schedules make it hard to function.Another approach centers on grief work and identity reconstruction, guiding people through the steps of making meaning from loss and reshaping goals and roles. This is useful for those facing bereavement, life transitions, or questions about who they want to become.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ryan treats the choice of methods as collaborative and adapts techniques to match each person's needs, goals, and pace. He will discuss options and adjust the plan as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone calls can fit a break in a busy day, and live chat or text works well for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit sessions into work, family, or caregiving schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English