About Dale
Dale Thompson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of experience offering practical, faith-informed support. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges. Dale writes in straightforward language and aims to meet clients where they are.
He encourages partnership in therapy. Sessions focus on building coping skills, managing overwhelming feelings, and clarifying what matters most to each person. He draws on long experience in different settings to tailor care to real-life needs.
Background and approach
Dale spent two decades as an officer counseling military service members and their families, including multiple deployments as a mental health provider. He has also worked in psychiatric hospitals, the justice system, schools, and community settings. That variety gives him many perspectives on common problems.
Personal experience shapes his approach. He has recovered from serious injury and surgery and understands the slow work of rebuilding after trauma and loss. He is a husband and father, and faith is central to his life and practice.
These elements influence how he supports people navigating grief, caregiving strain, chronic pain, and life transitions. Therapy with Dale is collaborative and practical. He helps people develop clearer communication, manage control and commitment issues, and cope with family-of-origin struggles.
Sessions aim to leave clients with tools they can use between meetings, and a clearer sense of next steps.
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Many of Dale's methods focus on teaching practical skills people can use every day. One approach emphasizes skill-building for managing intense emotions and stress through step-by-step coping strategies. This helps when anxiety, anger, or feeling overwhelmed gets in the way of daily life. Another strand centers on trauma-aware work that helps people process painful experiences and rebuild routines and trust in themselves after injury or loss. That approach is useful for people dealing with past hurt, deployments, or medical trauma.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Dale treats the process as collaborative and will help clients decide which methods fit their goals, background, and preferences. He regularly adapts plans based on how well techniques are working and what matters most to the person in therapy.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a lighter option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging let clients send updates between meetings and keep momentum when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to maintain regular work on anxiety, stress, relationships, and recovery.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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