About David
David Adames is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 18 years of experience. He focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, and major life changes. He works in English and Spanish and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical.
He starts by listening to each person's story and identifying strengths they already have. Sessions are collaborative - he helps people set clear goals and build steps to reach them.
Background and approach
The tone is supportive and direct, not overloaded with clinical language. David uses a mix of practical strategies drawn from approaches like acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavior techniques, and client-centered listening. That means sessions often focus on changing unhelpful thinking, building coping skills, and increasing meaningful action.
He also draws on methods that help regulate emotion and tolerate distress. People bring a wide range of concerns, including depression, relationship struggles, grief, parenting stress, substance challenges, ADHD, and career or self-esteem issues. He also addresses deeper patterns such as abandonment, codependency, and family of origin problems.
Therapy can happen by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. New clients complete a short matching questionnaire to get started. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that reflect their values. It’s useful for anxiety, stress, and big life changes because it emphasizes doing what matters even when feelings are hard.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting thought patterns and behaviors that make problems worse. It often uses concrete exercises and homework, which fit well into video or message-based sessions for ongoing progress.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and building on a person’s strengths. That approach supports a respectful, nonjudgmental space where goals are guided by the client rather than imposed by the therapist.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods make sense based on goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. That may mean combining techniques or trying different tools until a good fit is found.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls work well when a conversation and visual cues help, phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or times with limited bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can support short updates, skill practice, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, family, or travel while keeping therapy consistent and accessible.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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