About Chad
Chad Buske is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 14 years of practice. He focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addiction, and recover from trauma. He offers direct, practical support and aims to highlight each person's strengths.
Chad describes therapy as a joint process. He listens first, then helps clients identify reactions and patterns that keep problems going. Sessions can be short-term and solution-focused or longer and more exploratory depending on what someone wants.
Background and approach
His approach is grounded in humanistic ideas that place the client's goals at the center of work. Chad combines that with tools from motivational interviewing to encourage change and from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotional regulation skills. He also uses elements of the Gottman method for relationship concerns when relevant.
In sessions he keeps language straightforward and practical. He helps people build manageable skills for daily stress and develop clearer ways to make decisions. He also supports those facing drug and alcohol addiction with strategies aimed at reducing harmful patterns.
Chad aims to create a respectful, non-judgmental atmosphere. He invites honest conversation and helps people find meaning in their experiences. The focus is on what the client wants to change and on steps that fit their life.
Approaches that guide online work
Chad draws from client-centered therapy to keep the conversation focused on each person's goals and values. This approach means the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what matters to them, and helps clarify next steps to handle stress and anxiety.He also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy, which teaches concrete skills for managing emotions, tolerating distress, and improving day-to-day functioning. Those tools are often useful for overwhelming stress, strong mood shifts, and patterns linked to addiction.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Chad treats the choice of methods as collaborative, adapting techniques to match a person's goals, comfort level, and current challenges. He and the client check in and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use gestures and facial cues for deeper discussion, while phone sessions can fit a lunch break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins, quick skill coaching, and a way to stay connected between longer sessions. Together these options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Relationship issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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