About Benjamin
Benjamin Livesay is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with nine years of experience. He focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, and those managing addiction, trauma, grief, or career challenges. Benjamin approaches each person as an individual, not a problem, and aims to understand how current struggles grew out of past attempts to cope.
He sees many coping patterns as survival strategies that once helped but now hold people back.
Background and approach
Benjamin works with clients to identify which patterns are no longer useful and to build alternatives that fit their current life. He talks through what’s happening and helps make a step-by-step plan to move forward. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented.
Benjamin listens, asks clear questions, and offers ways to practice new skills between meetings. He helps people set achievable goals for things like reducing anxiety, managing cravings, improving communication, or finding clearer direction at work. Benjamin’s background as a clinical social worker shapes a broad, person-centered approach.
He draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address trauma, addiction, and stress-related problems. He believes collaboration helps clients find lasting change rather than quick fixes. He works with adults in Arkansas and conducts sessions in English.
Benjamin uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Benjamin uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address issues like anxiety, addiction, trauma, and grief. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful coping patterns and teaching practical skills to replace them. This helps people reduce anxiety and manage urges by practicing small, doable changes in daily life.Another approach centers on processing traumatic or painful experiences at a manageable pace. It helps people understand how past events affect current reactions and builds strategies to reduce distress and improve functioning. Both approaches are grounded in research and adapted to each person’s needs.
Finding the right mix of techniques is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to determine which methods fit best based on goals, personal history, and how someone prefers to work. Plans are revisited and adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls suit in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a work break, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging supports short updates or between-session check-ins. These options make it easier to access regular care while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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