About David
David Coalter is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of experience. He uses straightforward, practical methods to help adults manage anxiety, stress, mood shifts, and relationship strain. His work focuses on real, usable steps people can take to feel better day to day.
He emphasizes recovery from trauma and the changes that follow it. That includes work on emotional regulation and rebuilding healthy patterns in relationships. He helps people understand how past experiences affect current behavior and decision making.
Background and approach
In sessions he combines acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive tools and a client-centered stance. That means learning to notice thoughts, try new actions, and focus on values while staying grounded in present concerns. He also draws on existential questions about meaning when people face big life transitions.
Many clients come for help with addiction, grief, parenting stress, or recurring anger. He also supports people dealing with sleep or eating problems, low self-esteem, and symptoms of depression or bipolar mood patterns. First responder and fatherhood issues are listed among his areas of focus.
His approach is collaborative and practical. He works with each person to build skills that fit their daily life. Sessions aim to leave people with next steps they can use between meetings.
Approaches for online anxiety and trauma work
He commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify personal values, and take committed action toward what matters. ACT is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with painful memories.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thinking and behavior that fuel worry and low mood. CBT gives concrete skills to change those patterns and improve sleep, eating habits, and daily routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean mixing ACT and CBT ideas or focusing more on meaning-centered questions when facing major life changes.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper, interactive sessions; phone can be simpler when bandwidth is low; live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins and ongoing coaching. These options let people fit therapy into busy days, manage timing around work, and use shorter contacts when that feels most helpful.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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